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Andrea Bowers

1965
Born in Wilmington, Ohio
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
1992
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1987
B.F.A., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Solo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (forthcoming)
Solo, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Solo, kaufmann repetto Milan, Milan, Italy (forthcoming)
"Andrea Bowers," Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
2025
"Hope is Never Silent," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024
"Recognize Yourself as Land and Water," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Exist, Flourish and Evolve," MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (Link)
2023
"Joy is an Act of Resistance," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
"Drink The Wild Air," two-person show with Mary Weatherford, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2022-2023
"Moving in Space without Asking Permission," Fondazione Furla and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan, Italy
2022
"Can the world mend in this body?," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"you must not turn your head away in grief," kaufmann repetto milan, Milan, Italy
2021-2022
"Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
2021
"Energy With Intention," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Grief and Hope," curated Susanne Titz, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Think of Our Future," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Light and Gravity," Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (Link)
2018
"Open Secret," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
“Disrupting and Resisting,” Kauffman Repetto, Milan, Italy (Link)
2017
“Andrea Bowers and Marcos Erre,” Westmont Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Andrea Bowers,” curated by Steven Matijcio, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
"Bureau of Feminism," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"Triumph of Labor," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Andrea Bowers: Sanctuary,” curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Chuy, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
"Whose Feminism is it Anyway?" Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"The United State v. Tim DeChristopher," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2015
"Self-Determination," Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2014
"Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"In Situ-1: Andrea Bowers, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2013
"Cultivating the Courage to Sin", Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"Transformer Display for Community Fundraising: Phase 4," Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (two-person show with Olga Koumoundouros)
2012
"Help the Work Along," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011
"Ni Una Muerta Mas," curated by Anna Karetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"The New Womens Survival Guide," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"Andrea Bowers," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
"Mercy Mercy Me," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"An Eloquent Woman," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2008
"Sanctuary," Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
"The Weight of Relevance," ZKM/Zentrum fr Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
2007
"The Weight of Relevance," The Power Plant, Toronto, curated by Gregory Burke
"The Weight of Relevance," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
"The Weight of Relevance," Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006
"Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eungie Joo, traveling to: ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; St. Louis Museum,St. Louis, MO
"Vows," Halle fuer Kunst, eV, Lneburg, Germany
"Eulogies to One and Another," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
"Letters to an Army of Three," Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, curated by Mary Leclre
2005
"Culture of Choice," Van Horn, Dsseldorf, Germany
2004
"Soft Blockades Part 2," Magazin 4, Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
"Soft Blockades," Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003
"Magical Politics," Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2002
"Virtual Arena (catalogue)," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"From Mouth to Ear, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
"Box with Dance of Its Own Making, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2001
"Democracys Body Dance Dance Revolution, Art 32 Basel, Art Statements,
Basel, Switzerland, presented by Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"Intimate Strangers, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"I Need a Hero, Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
"One and the Same Body, ARCO Project Room, Madrid, Spain, presented by Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY 1301 PE, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Moving Equilibrium, Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY
1998
"Ohio (two-person show with Sam Durant), Dogenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Spectacular Appearances, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1997
"Spectacular Appearances in the Food Court, A project with the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Video Installation, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA
Spanish Box, Santa Monica, CA
1994
"Damaged Goods, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1993
FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027
"Art and Feminisms," Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming)
"California Dreaming," Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (forthcoming)
2026-2027
"From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"See You Tomorrow Under Other Skies," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (forthcoming); Traveling to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2027)
"Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2025
"Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"wild thinX," Galerie5020, Salzburg, Austria
"Engaged, Sculptors 2," Foundation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
"Trees We Breath," Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center, The Bronx, NY
"We. The Body as Sign," Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim, Germany
2024-2026
"Get in the Game," SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (2025); Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2026).
2024-2025
"Making Their Mark," BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA; Traveling to Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2025).
2024
"Body Freedom for Every(body)," Project for Empty Space
"PROJECTIONS III. RETHINKING THE WORLD," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
"Too Much Future," Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Art for a Safe and Healthy California," Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA
"Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art," Shirley Fiterman Art Center at Bronx Community College, New York, NY
"Survival In The 21st Century," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"A Model: Prelude – Rayyane Tabet. Trilogy," MUDAM, Luxembourg
"Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968," MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Wrongs & RIGHTS," Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"2024 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION," The Campus, Claverack, NY
"Mother Earth," Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy, Washington D.C.
"Rewilding” Kunsthaus Baselland, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
2023-2025
"Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Traveling to Norton Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2024-2025)
2023
"The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Collective Cycles," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
"Dawn of Humanity," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"How to Survive," Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska (Link)
"What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
"(Chosen) Family/ (Wahl) Famile: Who We Are," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany (Link)
"Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"Rohkunstbau 28: Finally Peace! Caring For Yourself And Others," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Mouvement et Lumiére," Fondation Villa Datris, Paris, France (Link)
"Euroluce," Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
"Imperfect Paradise," Barbati Gallery, Venice
"Visual Language: The Art of Protest," Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Language in the Time of Miscommunication," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2022-2023
"Paint The Protest," Off Paradise, New York, NY
"Empowerment," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2022
"Wrongs & RIGHTS," The Rudin Family Gallery, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Strong), Brooklyn, NY
"Calling To Our Future: LA Climate Art Action," Emerson Collective, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
"51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Working Thought," The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-2022
"Omelette Papier," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2021
"Who will Write the History of Tears," MoMa Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
"Vogliamo Tutto," Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
"New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century," University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
"We Are Here." Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
"In the Meanwhile… Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Stories of Resistance," CAMSTL, St. Louis, Missouri
"Wayne Thiebaud: Influencer," Thiebaud Centennial Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2020
"Rhizome 7/7," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (online)
"Conversational Spirits," Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
"F as in Frank," Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change," Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
"Don’t Let This Be Easy," Walker Art Center, Minneaplis, MN
Permanent Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
"What is Nature?," Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
"Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, NY
"South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Time for Outrage: Art in Times of Social Anger," Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (Link)
"Vent’anni – 20 years," Kaufmann Repetto, New York (Link)
"In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2019-2021
"Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020
"In Plain Sight," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
"Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"F-Bomb", Daniel Arts Center, Bard College, NY (Link)
"How the Light Gets In," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
"United by AIDS," Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
"Damn! The Defiant," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
"STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"Queer California: Untold Stories," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018-2019
"The Street. Where the World is Made," MAXXI, Rome, Italy (Link)
"Parking on Pavement," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
"Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"What Is Enlightenment? 200 Years of the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library," Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Climate Change Is Real," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Art & Activism: Drawing the line," Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
"Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection," Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
"West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"After Posada: Revolution," El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
“The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US,” Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, CUNY
"Kinship," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Mis (missing) Information,” organized by Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Agora,” The High Line, New York, NY (Link)
“Power to the People. Political Art Now,” Schirn Kunsthalle Franfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (Link)
“Nothing Stable under Heaven,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Link)
"¿¡Welcome?!," Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA (Link)
"Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal," curated by Ciara Ennis and Jennifer Vanderpool, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA (Link)
2017
“Really?” curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody,Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)
“Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
"Marching to the Beat," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Women to the Front: Works from the Miller Meigs Collection,” Lumber Room, Portland, OR
“I Plan to Stay a Believer,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Graphic Witness,” The Drawing Room, London, UK
“Resistance Training,” curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College, Oakland, CA
“Occupancy,” Boston University art Galleries, Boston, MA
“The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“The Intersectional Self,” The 8th Floor, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
“LA TERRA INQUIETA,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
“Unfinished Conversations,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2016
“Displacement: Symbols and Journeys,” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
"The Revolution Will Not Be Gray,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
“Take Me (I’m Yours),” Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“The Gildless Age,” curated by Denise Johnson, Torrance Art Museum, Torrence, CA
"Let There Be Light,” curated by Jens Hoffman, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA
“The Gildless Age,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015
"Drawing Now," Albertina, Vienna, Austria
"Unpacking Our Library," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"When Artists Speak Truth…" The 8th Floor, New York, NY
"The Bottom Line," S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
"Citizen," Tate Modern, London, UK
“Agitprop!” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
"Words, Words, Words," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2014
"Grip friheten! Take Liberty! Museum of Contemporary Art," Nationalmuseum, Oslo, Norway
"Pace Gems," Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
"Lavenir (looking forward)," La Biennale de Montreal, curated by Gregory Burke, Peggy Gale, Lesley Johnstone and Mark Lanctt, Montral, Quebec, Canada
"Burning down the house," 10th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Jessica Morgan, South Korea
2014 SITE Lines: SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
"Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists Responses to his Life and Art," Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
"The Sunken Living Room," Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
"If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution," Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA
"Andrea Bowers and Susanne Lacy," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America," USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; traveled to Asia Society Texas Center, Houston TX (2015)
2013
"Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"The Past is Present," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
"Labour and Wait", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Approximately Infinite Universe", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art, In collaboration with Cori Redstone, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondo, UT
"Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Make Liverpool a City of Sanctuary," Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England, UK
"The Living Years: Art after 1989" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Audience as Subject Part 2: Extra Large," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar," curated by Julian Hoeber and Alix Lambert, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawn from Photography," DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
"Malas Artes," Galera Nieves Fernndez, Madrid, Spain
"Go Tell It On The Mountain," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent," Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
"Femmescapes," Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles private gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nothing Beside Remains," collaboration with Shizu Saldamando, a project with LAND, Marfa, TX
2011
"Why I Never Became a Dancer," Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Drawn from Photography," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Body Gesture", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"Word Is.," Luckman Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
"Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
"In Process," Ann 330 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Politics of Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"The Last Newspaper," The New Museum, New York, NY
"Sisters, Brothers & Others," Claremont University East Gallery, Claremont, CA
"Everything is Political," FOCA Fellowship exhibition, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"In the Balance: Art for a Changing World," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"The Seventh House, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
"The Road to Hell is Paved," Las Cienega Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Cycle 8: Stowaways, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain, curated by Elke Krystufek," part of the exhibition series PASSWORDS, New Representation on Femininity
"Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now)," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Love in a Cemetery," 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2009
"Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Your Donations Do Our Work," University of California, Riverside, CA
"DAS GESPINST", collection Schrmann at Museum Abteilberg, Mnchengladbach, Germany
"Multitud Singular: El arte de resistir," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2008
"Wunderkammer Lneburg, Halle fr Kunst, Lneburg, Germany
"California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (October 26, 2008 – March 15, 2009)
"Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
"nach/sichten. Video works from the Goetz Collection, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek
2008-2009
"Proyecto Civico / Civic Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico, curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez
2008
"Memory is your image of perfection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
"Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Syndey, Australia, curated by Rachel Kent and Dr. Stephanie Hanor
"Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
"The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
"We Remember The Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ralph Rugoff
"La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, co-curated by M. Reiley
"Small Things End," Great Things Endure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion)
"Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007
"Read me! Text in Art," The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
"Radical Hospitality," The Suburban, Chicago, IL
"Nothing Moments Projects," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree
"space.gaze.desire,"Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen
"Classe de Danse," Madonna fust Galerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi
"The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, curated by Ariane Beyn
"Tanzen Sehen," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Seigen, Germany
"The Evil," Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, curated by Raimar Stange
"OHIO, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
"Encore," Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL, curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
2006
"Personal Affairs," Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
"particulate matter," Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (curated by Glen Helfand)
"20 jahre NAK," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
"Prevailing Climate," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"First Artist Defines Meaning," Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
"Human Game," Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi)
"This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City,
"Anticipation," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (curated by Karen Irvine)
"Art for our sake!," Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Welcome Home," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Jump Cut—Nights (a symposium on choreographic structures in moving images) and Videoperformance—stories told through movement, Cinema of Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)
2005
"Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, traveling to White Columns, New York, NY
"REALIT;-)T," curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland
"Estacion Tijuana," Tijuana, Mexico
Mary Goldman, Los Angeles, CA
"Old News," curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"New Tapestries," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel, Switzerland
"Fast Forward, Media Art From the Goetz Collection," Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid, Spain
2004
"100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
"Dance Dance Revolution," curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
"Victory 2004," Ronald Felman, New York, NY
"kurzdavordanach," curated by von Wilhelm Schrmann, Die Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
"The Freedom Salon," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
"Drawings," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
"Fast Forward, Media Works from the Goetz Collection between Ethno-Narration and Formal Innovation," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Rendered," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Yard: An exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic architect," curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
"Extended Play: Art Remixing Music," curated by Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"C.O.L.A. 2003," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
"Conversations," curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
"Videodrome II," curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
"Time-Share," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop," curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, England
"DV Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood," curated by Rodolfo Sanchez, Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
"LA On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MoCA’s Collection," curated by Michael Darling, MOCA at The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Group Show, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
"New Heimat," curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Retake," curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
"Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld)," curated by Christine Bisetto and Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"Casino 2001," curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum for Actual Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2001
"Everybody Now," curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York
"Subject Plural," curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
"False Start," curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film & Video," curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL
2000
"Video Take," Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openabare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium
"Radar Love," curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
"Game On," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Jenelle Porter and Conny Purtill, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Moving Pictures," Galerie Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
"Painting: Fore and Aft," ACME, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawing the Line," curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
"Venus," curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna, Austria
"Motion Studies," curated by Michael Darling, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
"Transfer," curated by Rosanne Alstatt Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Living Theatre," curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
"Im the Boss of Myself," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Amy Cappellazzo, Sara Meltzer, New York, NY
"Me Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Atlantic VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
"Video Cult/tures," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
"More Than Meets the Eye," curated by Wilhelm Schuermann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1998
"Unfinished History," curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Guarene Arte 98," Selected by Douglas Fogle, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte, Torino, Italy
"In the Polka Dot Kitchen," curated by Sally Elesby and Anne Ayres, Otis Gallery and Armory Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Time Dilates," Three Day Weekend, New York, NY
"Kamikaze," curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin, Germany
"Phoenix Triennial," curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
"Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day," curated by Marilu Knode, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
"Wings of Desire," curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Three Day Weekend," curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles, CA
"Youth Studies," curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles, CA
1997
"Places That Are Elsewhere," curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
"Quartzose," curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
"The Summer of Love," Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
"Hot Coffee," curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York, NY
1996
"True Bliss," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"Trying/Pattern, Chance," a project by Art Center College, Whisky Petes, NV
"Open House," curated by John OBrien, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Space Space," curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles, CA
"Ether," curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Report from Spring Training," Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
1995
"Neotoma," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Redevelopment," curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro
"Couldnt Get Ahead (catalogue & CD)," curated by Adam McEwen, Independent Artists Space, London, England
"Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation," In Rezone at Diverse Works, Houston, TX
"People-Going Places-Doing Things," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Pretty," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1994
"Thanks-The Works Is Not For Sale But Up For Barter," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
"Daves Not Here," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
"Thanks Again," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
"Second Skin," curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco, CA
"Bad Girls (catalogue)," curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum, New York, NY
"Utter Realities," curated by Randy Sommer, Cerritos College Fine Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
"PARANOID," co-organized by Sam Durant, M*Y*T*H* Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Power of Positive Thinking," curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993
"Loose Slots," curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
"Heaven Missing," Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY
"Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism," Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Thank You," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
"FOOD HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery," curated by FOOD HOUSE The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
"Public & Private Pleasure," curated by Lauren Lesko, Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles
"Cherry Bomb," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Imp of the Perverse," curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
1992
"Skinned Eyes/Skin Dye," curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
"The FAR Bazaar," Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, CA
"Good Design," organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White,Nomadic Sites, Pasadena, CA
"Afterthought," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991
"Window on L.A.," curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
"Tales From The Creeps," Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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2017
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2016
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2015
The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium
Gordon, Larry, California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles Times, January 3
Basha, Regine, La Biennale de Montral: Lavenir (looking forward), Modern Painters, January
Deleu, Sylvain, Art Basel Switzerland Announce their 2015 Gallery Lineup, artlyst, March 3
Group Exhibition A Voice Remains to Open at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, artlyst, April 24
Purseglove, Laura, Art Review: A Voice Remains Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Reactivating the Revolution, artlyst, April 30
Glentzer, Molly, Provocative Show Examines Immigration, Houston Chronicle, May 10
Steer, Emily, Basel Gallery Picks: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, US, Elephant Magazine (web), June 19
Jovanovic, Rozalia, See the 11 Best Gallery Booths at Art Basel, ArtNet News (web), June 18
Kirsch, Corinna, Art teachers paid the same as McDonalds workers, The Art Newspaper, July 2
Ricciardi, Nicola, Nothing is neutral: an interview with Andrea Bowers, Mousse Magazine, February
2014
Shen Goodman, Matthew, "Frieze New York Reaches Agreement With Unions," Art in America online, April 10 (Link)
Lescaze, Zoe, "Frieze New York, Unions Reach Agreement in Art Fair Labor Dispute," Gallerist NY, April 9 (Link)
Newhall, Edith, "Galleries: A long-forgotten artist, 1960s anarchy, and clay," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28 (Link)
Fisch, Sarah, "’Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble," San Antonio Current, April 30 (Link)
Maloney, Patricia, "Episode 447: Andrea Bowers, #sweetjane", Bad at Sports (audio interview), March 24 (Link)
Landi, Ann, "the Cutting-Edge to Santa Fe," ARTNews, Summer (Link)
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Knight, Christopher, Year in Review: Christopher Knights Best Art Shows of 2014, Los Angeles Times, December 19
Morgan, Jessica, Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale 2014 Exhibition Catalogue, October
Bowers, Andrea, Feminists, Art in America, December
Byrd, Cathy, Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers, Fresh Art International, October 2
Cooper, Ashton, ` on Futurity: 5 Works at the Montal Bienniale, ArtInfo, October 28
Smith, William S., SITElines.2014: Unsettled Lanscapes, Art in America, November
Byrd, Cathy, Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers, Fresh Art International, October 2 (Link)
Munro, Cait, At Montreal Biennial Artists Tackle Sexual Politics in the 21st Century, artnet, November 3
Galan, Manuela, Paris Top 10 Contemporary Art Exhibitions this Summer, The Culture Trip, August
Fleury, Claire, Ile-de-France: 5 expos ne pas manquer, Le nouvel Observateur, September 20
Maloney, Patricia, All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane, The Brooklyn Rail, September 4
Bowers, Andrea, and Lacy, Suzanne, After the Slumber Party, The Brooklyn Rail, September 4
Landi, Anne, Documenting the Americas: Art With a Politicla Bent, but the Messages Are Seldom Heavy-Handed, The Wall Street Journal, September 2
Travers, Andrew, Anderson Ranch hosts Opie and women artists symposium, The Aspen Times, July 29
Sanromn, Lucia, Andrea Bowers, catalog for Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, NM, Summer
Weiderman, Paul, SITE Santa fe Andrea Bowers: The art of activism, Santa Fe New Mexican, July 18
Hanson, Sarah, Pushing Boundaries: SITE Santa Fes Reimagined Biennial, ArtInfo, July 18
Landi, Ann, Bringing the Cutting-Edge to Santa Fe, ARTnews, Summer
Germack, Diane, Louis Vuitton rend homage aux femmes, luxurydesign, July 15
Joyce, Erin, A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Hyperallergic, July 31
Cristello, Stephanie, Unsettled Landscapes: An Interview with Andrea Bowers, ARTslant, July
Hirsh, Jennie, A New Chapter for SITE Santa Fes Biennial, Art in America, June 13
Groppo, Pierre, In Situ 1: Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton gives Andrea Bowers carte blanche, Vogue Paris, June 4
Gelsomini, Tina, BNLMTL 2014 // Andrea Bowers, The Seen: Chicagos International Online Journal of Contemporary at Modern Art, May 27
Fisch, Sarah, ‘Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble, San Antonio Current, April 30
Fisch, Sarah, ‘Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble, San Antonio Current, April 30
Knight, Christopher, " Review: ‘#sweetjane’ fuses art, a horrific crime to powerful effect," Los Angeles Times, February 18 (Link)
Bodin, Claudia, "Die Kunst, dagegen zu sein," Art Magazin, February
Buckley, Annie, "Investigating Steubenville: Andrea Bowers’ #sweetjane," KCET Artbound, February 6 (Link)
Yoshimura, Courtney, "500 Words: Andrea Bowers," Artforum.com, January 21 (Link)
"March Preview: Andrea Bowers," Art, February
Willette, Jeanne, "Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art," ArtScene, January
2013
Geiser, Kirsa, "Review: Andrea Bowers, ‘Cultivating the Courage to Sin,’ at Capitain Petzel," Spike Art Quarterly, Winter
Mania, Astrid, "Critics’ Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel," Artforum, October 16
Ruthe, Ingeborg, "Ihre Freunde, die Bume: Andrea Bowers, Capitain Petzel," Berliner Zeitung, October 15
Cheng, Scarlet, Labour and Wait displays the melding of art and craft, Los Angeles Times, August 31
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, Art Talk: Labour and Wait at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, KCRW, August 15
Foster, Kenneth J, Audience as Subject, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (Exhibition Catalog)
McGuire, Mary, Andrea Bowers, Labour and Wait exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July
Joyce, Julie, Labour and Wait, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July
Bodin, Claudia, Der Wichtigste Kunstmarkt Der Welt, ART Das Kunstmagazin, May 14
Smith, Roberta, 40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island, New York Times, May 10 (Link)
Bodin, Claudia, Noch Mehr Lrm, ART Das Kunstmagazin, May 10
Heddaya, Mostafa, Andrea Bowers Protest letters Taken Down Overnight at Frieze, Hyperallergic, May 10
Kinsella, Eileen, Labor Activists Return to Protest Frieze, Will Speak Out at Nato Thompson Talk, ArtInfo, May 10
Kjellburg, Ann, Not Fair: Artist Andrea Bowers Writes to the Organizers of the Frieze Art Fair, Little Star, May 10
Sutton, Benjamin, Andrea Bowers Hangs Letter Decrying Friezes Labor Practices in Susanne Vielmetters Booth, ArtInfo, May 9
Lescaze, Zo, Union Members Protest Frieze Labor Policy, Andrea Bowers Joins the Fray, Gallerist NY, May 5
Willette, Jeanne, "Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art," ArtScene, January
2012
Crow, Kelly, Art Basel: From Bargains to Billionaires, The Wall Street Journal, December 7
Heyman, Marshall, The Insanity of Art Basel, The Wall Street Journal, December 6
Bodin, Claudia, Art Basel Miami Beach: Und ewig lockt der Knstler, Art das Kunstmagazin, December 7
Kellaway, Brooke, Letters to the Army of Three: Andrea Bowers on Abortion, Then and Now, Walker Art Center, December 3
Three Friends Walk Into A Gallery, Revising Loneliness, November 6
Richard, Frances, Andrea Bowers, Artforum, Winter
Knight, Christopher, "A timely, spirited protest at ‘Work’", LA Times, October 5
Heldebro, Johanna, "Interview with Andrea Bowers, LAURA, Issue No. 8, Autumn
Proctor, Jacob, The Residue of Memory, Exhibition Catalogue, Aspen Art Museum
Moshayedi, Aram, No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Artforum.com Critics Pick, August
Clayton, Campbell, Shamim Momin, Art Voices Magazine, Issue 38, June/July
Edwards, Jeff, Never Forgotten: The Art and Activism of Andrea Bowers, ArtPulse, No. 11, Spring
"Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent", edited by Yaelle Amir, David Dempewolf and Yuka Yokoyama, Marginal Utility
Green, Emily. L.A. activists try to stop woodlands from becoming sediment dumps, High Country News, May 14
Buszek, Maria Elena Necessary Positions in Feminist Art: A Conversation, Art Journal, Spring
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, The Kids Are Alright, Huffington Post, April 30
Audience as Subject Puts Spotlight on the Spectator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Huffingtonpost.com, February 15
Smith, Roberta. Promising Tyros Join an Art Fair Club, New York Times, March 9
Kiyoizumi, A.J. Art Show Examines Audiences, The Daily Californian, February 22
Prestianni, Sam. Mob Rules, San Francisco Weekly, February 15
Richard, Frances. Andrea Bowers, Artforum, January
Rochester, Katherine. Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, Artforum.com, February 16
Thompson, Dale. Meeting Ground: 2012 Artist in Residence Andrea Bowers combines Art and Activism, March 6
27 Questions for Art Activist Andrea Bowers, ArtInfo International, January 4
2011
Bruce, Caitlin, Looking for the Political at Art Basel, Art Threat, December 19
Cotter, Holland. Complacency Butts Up Against Game Changers, New York Times December 16
Andrea Bowers. The New Yorker. December 12
Rabel, Eduardo Alexander. Something for Everyone. Artslant.co, December 9
Lookofsky, Sarah. Critics Pick – Andrea Bowers. Artforum.com, December 8
Gilbert, Alan. Andrea Bowerss The New Womans Survival Catalog. Art-agenda.com, December 8
Sledge, Matt. Occupy Art Basel Remains Elusive, But One Occupation Shoots Up In Miami Beach, huffingtonpost.com, December 2
Rosenberg, Karen. Art Fair: Business Over Activism. New York Times, December 2
Loos, Ted. Ten Things to Look Forward to at Art Basel in Miami. Vogue, November 28
Bloom, Lisa. Glasberg, Elena. Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions. Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, November
Lacy, Suzanne. It Speaks to Me. Los Angeles Tim, September 21
Diaz, Eva. Drawn from Photography. ArtForum, Summer
Rosenow, Romina. The Treet Watchers. Pasadena Magazine, July
Cromer, Mark. Incarceration to Installation. Artillery, May/June
Scott, Andrea K. Drawn From Photography. The New Yorker, March 21
Rosenberg, Karen. Drawn From Photography. New York Times: Weekend Arts, February 25
Rosenberg, Karen, Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity, The New York Times, February 24
Dorfman, John. The Lens and the Pencil. Art & Antiques, February
Finkel, Jori, Artist-activist Andrea Bowers arrested in tree-sitting protest in Arcadia, Los Angeles Times, January 13
Finkel, Jori, Artist Andrea Bowers turns activist, Los Angeles Times, January 12
Lawson, Thomas. A Story about Civil Disobedience and Landscape: Interview with Andrea Bowers. East of Borneo, January
Morgan, Margaret. Home Truths, in The M Word, edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein. Demeter Press
Gilman, Claire. Drawn from Photography. Exhibition catalog. The Drawing Center, New York
DiQuinzio, Apsara. The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. Edited by Eungie Joo, Joseph Keehn II, Jenny Ham-Roberts. Routledge
Why I Never Became a Dancer, Exhibition Catalog, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Hatje Cantz
Goetz, Igvild, Why I Never Became a Dancer, at Sammlung Goetz, Munich | Essays: Goetz, Ingvild On this Exhibition: Urbaschek, Stephan On Younglings, Maidens, Dandies, Bobby-soxers, Hooligans, Rowdies, Teenagers and Avatars; Verreet, Isabelle Andrea Bowers, Democracys Body Dance Dance Revolution, 2001
Szupinska, Joanna, Andrea Bowers, ArtUS, No. 30
2010
Barton, Greg. Graphite Testimony. The Last Times December
Young, Paul. The New Garde. Angeleno Magazine December
Gilman, Claire. "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art." Art Papers, Fall
Zellen, Jody, Andrea Bowers, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artillery, September/October
Henson, Julie, The Political Landscape, a conversation with Andrea Bowers, Daily Serving, August 7
Barliant, Claire, The Last Newspaper, Time Out New York, November 1
Miles, Christopher, Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, July 29
Knight, Christopher, Other Side of the Dream, Los Angeles Times, July 9
Mizota, Sharon, "The Guide," Los Angeles Times, May 7
Beck, Graham T, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Frieze, Issue 129, March
Mizota, Sharon, Love in a Cemetery at the 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles Times, February 26
Duncan, David, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Art in America, January
ONeill-Butler, Lauren, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Artforum, January
Bowers, Andrea. "Andrea Bowers in conversation with Tucker Stilley." Jacob, Mary Jane and Michelle Grabner, editors, The Studio Reader. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010.
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists 2009. CCF Foundation, Los Angeles.
Dean, Bec. "Raquel Ormella and Andrea Bowers: Life in the Balance." Art and Australia, Volume 48, No. 1
In the Balance: Art for a Changing World. Exhibition catalogue. Curated by Rachel Kent, Glenn Barkley, Anna Davis and Keith Munro, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Politics of Art. Exhibition Catalog. Curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2010.
2009
Cotter, Holland, Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea, New York Times, December 4
Mizota, Sharon, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Papers, November/December
Amir, Yaelle, Eco-Action, Art Slant New York, November 22
Emerling Susan, Laton: the little California town that served as a muse, Los Angeles Times, April 26
Luna, Marcela Quiroz, Proyecto Cvico / Civic Project at Centro Cultural Tijuana- CECUT, Latin Art, Spring
Dean, Jennifer, Exhibit at UCR pairs art, clothing drive for needy, The Press-Enterprise, March 11
Buckley, Annie, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Forum, March 6
Cheng, Scarlet, Irvine Shines at OC: 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Artillery magazine, March
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacys Progressive Home Economics, THE Magazine Los Angeles, February/March
Calder, Diane, Previews of Exhibitions: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Scene, February
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, Museum Preview: 2008 California Biennial, Art Forum, January
I thought California would be different: The 2008 California Biennial in light of the presidential election, DBartmag.com, 2009
2008
Artists Project: Andrea Bowers, Switch 1.1 : A Biannual Magazine Published by The Power Plant, Winter
Pincus, Robert, State of Mind, San Diego Union Tribune, December 14
Wagley, Catherine, The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial, dailyserving.com, December 1
Christopher Knight, Critics Choices, Los Angeles Times, November 16
Estves, Ruth and Lucia Sandromn Ed., Proyecto Civico Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Mateus Books, November
Boem, Mike. "3 L.A. Artists Get Fellowship," Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2008, p. E-3
Knight, Christopher, Dont Take It Lying Down, Los Angeles Times, November 4
Aeppel; LVR, 2008 California BiennialUnder Beautiful Smog, ovationtv.com, November 4
The 2008 California Biennale, The Santa Barbara New Press, October 31
The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennale, artdaily.org, October 26
Chang, Richard, A Broader Biennial, Orange County Register, October 26
Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
Chang, Richard, California Biennial reaches beyond the Golden State, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, October 24
Firstenberg, Lauri, 2008 California Biennial. Exhibition catalogue. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, October
Schwarting, Jen, Progress, The Brooklyn Rail, October
Kecskes, Alex, A Rich Palette of Talent, 944 Magazine, October
2008 California Biennial, THE Magazine, October
Melrod, George, A Questioning Biennial, Interview with Lauri Firstenberg, Art Ltd., November
Andrea Bowers in Conversation with Catherine Opie, Catalogue, Art Resources Transfer, Canada: Westcan, Edited by Alejandro Cesarco
OConnell, Brian, Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?, Art & Research, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer
Morrone, Francis. "Changing Times, Changing Notions: ‘Progress’ At the Whitney," The New York Sun, August 14
Myers, Julian, "Amateurs," Frieze, September
Rugoff, Ralph, "Other Experts," Amateurs. Exhibition catalogue. CCA Wattis, San Francisco
Schwarting, Jen, "Progress," The Brooklyn Rail, October
Harmanci, Reyhan, Face of Femminism: Small Things End, Great Things Endure, San Francisco Chronicle, January 17
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, Preview: The Way That We Rhyme, Artforum, January
Krishtalka, Sholem, A Furious Embrace: Not a soft downy comforter, Xtra! January 7
2007
Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte, "Modelle einer kritischen Gegenwartskunst, Wiener Zeitung, February 22
Pagel, David. "It Pays to Be Booksmart and Streetwise, Los Angeles Times, December 28
Stange, Raimar, The Evil (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, December
Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds, Flash Art Online, November 16
Prickett, Sarah Nicole, "Art-Hopping: Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Deluca Fine Arts, Torontoist, Nov. 29
Food, Brian, "Going Out: Things to do and People to See in T.O. this week, Globe and Mail, November 24
Buckley, Annie, "A Handmades Tale: Andrea Bowers Bears Witness to the Equilibrium Between Art and Activism, A & U Magazine, September
Patterson, Carrie, "Andrea Bowers: The Weight of Relevance, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
Moshayedi, Aram, "Andrea Bowers: Los Angeles, Art Papers, July/August
Schmidt, Eva. "Tanzen Sehen", Exhibition catalogue. Museum fr Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Mizota, Sharon, "Filling the Gap, art ltd, July
Mizota, Sharon, "Politics sewn to art, panel by quilt-like panel, Los Angeles Times, June 9
Bowers, Andrea. "Beyond Drawing". Art on Paper, Vol. 11 (May/June 2007), p.66-68.
Pagel, David, "Honoring a quilt and its powerful message, Los Angeles Times, May 18
Bowers, Andrea. "Guest Lecture by Andrea Bowers", Artillery, Vol 1, No. 5, p. 24, May
Bedford, Christopher, "Artforum Pick: Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, May 19
Beyn, Ariane, "The California Files (catalogue), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, April 19
Wing, Carlin, "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Fluent Collaborative, issue 87, April
"Personal Affairs, Kunstforum International, vol. 184, March/April
"Intimer Einblick in verborgenedurch die Kunst, Dumont Kunst, February
Kort, Michele, "The Women Who Came Before Roe, Alternet, January
"Personal Affairs, Stadt Revue, and Financial Time Deutschland, January
"Personal Affairs im Museum Morsbroich, Kunstbulletin, January, p. 70
"Die Verborgenen chatze des Leverkusener Kunsttempels, Das Regionale Freizeitmagazin, January
2006
Schmidt, Jason. "Artists." Paris, Edition 7L, 2006, p. 137
Wolff, Elaine. "At the Crossroads with Freud and Roe", San Antonio Current, November 1-7
Goddard, Dan R. "Photorealistic drawings honor women’s social activism", San Antonio Express News, Nov. 26
Jones, Amelia. "A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945." London, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp.181-182
Schwenke-Runkel, Ingeborg. "Wie viel Intimitat ist erlaubt?", Kolner – Stadt – Anzeiger, vol 2.3, December
Heinzelmann, Markus, "New Forms of Intimacy, Personal Affairs catalogue, Museum Morsbroich, DuMont Literature and Kunst Verlag
Lawson, Thomas, "Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Valdez, Sarah, "Andrea Bowers: Nothing is Neutral at REDCAT, Los Angeles, art on paper, November/December
Kort, Michelle, "Letters to an Army of 3: Artist Andrea Bowers honors pre-Roe pioneers, Ms. Magazine, Fall
Payton, Brenda, "Art explores world at tipping point, The Oakland Tribune, September 22
Helfand, Glen, "particulate matter, (show catalogue), Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Joo, Eungie. Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers, CA Institute of the Arts and RedCat (show catalogue)
Essays: Butler, Connie. "Andrea Bowerss Magical Feminism
Joo, Eungie. "DIY School (interview)
Leclre, Mary. "The Skeptics Question
Lapp, Axel. "Your Whole Fucking Culture Alienates Me: Andrea Bowers", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 135
Myers, Holly. "Balancing art, politics, Los Angeles Times, July 19
Taft, Catherine. "Scene and Herd, artforum.com, July 1
Baldwin, Cara. "Cara Baldwin interviews Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 33-34
Futernick, Marisa. "Marisa Futernick on Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pg 25
Herbst, Marc. "An elegy near Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 36-37
Lowther, John, "John Lowther on Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 38-39
Bell, Kirsty; Lubbke-Tidow, Maren; Stange, Raimar. "Andrea Bowers/ Matthew
Antezzo, Neue Review, Art in Berlin, January, pgs. 4-9
Leclre, Mary. "Andrea Bowers: Letters to the Army of Three, exhibition catalog,
The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005, pp.4-11
Pollack, Barbara. "Social Studies: Sixty artists overhaul the concept of national monument, Time Out New York, January Issue
2005
Meltzer, Eve. "Monuments for the USA, FRIEZE, Summer 2005
Kraus, Chris. Tumlir, Jan, McFadden, Jane, "LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black
Sholis, Brian, Vitamin D, New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York, 2005, Essay p. 36, illustrations pp.37-39.
Lorch, Catrin. "Van Horn, Dsseldorf, Germany, Frieze, Issue 94, October, p. 228.
Bowers, Andrea. "Four Emerging Women Speak Out On Mary Kelly’s Circa 1968:
Danielle Gustafson Sundell, Cara Balwin, Marisa J. Futernick and Andrea Bowers," InterReview p. 28-29.
"Fast Forward/Avance Rapido," Media Art From the Goetz Collection, p.26-27,40-45.
Rugoff, Ralph, "Monuments for the USA", pp. 32-33.
Siegel, Katy. "All Together Now," Artforum, January, p. 169.
2004
"Alla Biennale del Whitney, tourna la pittura, Arte, April, p. 109.
Bankowsky, Jack. "This is Today," Artforum, May, p. 170.
Bowers, Andrea. "Magical Politics Feast or Fasting, Cakewalk, pp. 23-25.
Bowers, Andrea. "My Pop" Artforum, October, p. 94.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Andrea Bowers at Mary Goldman Gallery," Artweek, September, pp. 19-20.
Dunn, Melissa. "Whitney Biennial: A Good-Looking Corpse," Flash Art, May-June, p. 63.
Heartney, Eleamor, "The Well-Tempered Biennial" Art in America June/July 2004, p. 75.
Knight, Christopher. "Politics and art? Of course, she says," The Los Angeles Times, June 11.
Kraus, Chris. "Chance", 2004.
Kraus, Chris, "Sentimental Bitch", Video Green, 2004.
Kuhn, Thomas,"Fast Forward", Kunstforum International, 168 January/February 2004, p. 346-348.
Larsen, Lars Bang, Katy Siegel and Jan Verwoert. "What the World Needs Now," Frieze, November/December, pp. 52-53, 77-78, 81-82, 84-86, 88.
Lee, Pamela M. "Crystal Lite," Artforum, May, p. 174.
Mania, Astrid, "Review Andrea Bowers" U-Spot, 02/2004, p. 49.
Martens, Anne. "Andrea Bowers," Flash Art, Jul/Sep, p. 116.
Morgan, Susan. "If Memories Failed to Fade", Andrea Bowers, Magazin 4.
Rapkin, Mickey. "Bold Biennial," Details, March, p. 78.
Seigel, Katy and Mattick, Paul, Art Works Money, Thames & Hudson, pp. 34-35,100-101, 194.
Siegel, Katy et. al. "American Pie," Frieze, May, p. 69.
Sholis, Brian, "Creative Resistance – Carol Bove and Andrea Bowers", Flash Art , October, p.102.
2003
Durant, Sam and Monica Bonvicini. "Andrea Bowers," Neue Review, December, p. 4-5.
"Focus Video and Film, Flash Art, Mar/Apr, p. 93.
Jana, Renna. "California Dreamin, tema celeste.
Kantor, Jordan. "Andrea Bowers, Artforum, January, p. 140.
Myers, Holly. "Relationships at Play in the Physical World, Los Angeles Times, Saturday, July 19.
Smith, Roberta. "Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory," The New York Times, Friday, June 27.
Sorbello, Marina. "Andrea Bowers: Magical Politics," The Art Newspaper, December.
Thorson, Alice. "The Art of War," Kansas City Star, Sunday, March 30.
2002
Bowers, Andrea. "Game Girl, V Magazine, July/August.
Bowers, Andrea "Top Ten, Artforum. April: p. 38.
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst.
Gavlak, Sarah "Andrea Bowers, Intimate Strangers. Time Out. Issue 277, Jan. 11-18.
Harvey, Doug "About Time, Bitchin’ video art at the Hammer. LA Weekly. Feb. 16-22.
Knode, Marilu. "Andrea Bowers, Retake, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, p. 70-75. Liverpool.
Kraus, Chris and Katy Siegel. Andrea Bowers, Sara Meltzer Gallery.
Pagel, David "The Myth of Selling Out Art Issues, Summer.
Pagel, David. "MOCA Sampler Is a Mixed Treat, Los Angeles Times, Friday, Feb. 8.
Bowers, Andrea. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Annual Report, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001.
Robinson, Walter " Baselmania, art.com magazine, June 16.
Siegal, Katy et. al., "Andrea Bowers, Everybody Now, The Bertha and Karl Leubdsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College.
Siegel, Katy "Katy Siegel on Andrea Bowers. Artforum. January: p. 121.
Wallis, Simon. "Andrea Bowers, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool.
2001
Amanshauser, Hildegund and Thater, Diana, "A Living Theatre, exhibition catalog, Salzburger Kunstverein pp. 22-33.
Klassmeyer, Kelly. "Group Mentality, Houston Press, April 12-18.
Knode, Marilu, "Revolution Dance", exhibition catalog Wiederaufnahme (Retake), NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 2001.
Molinari, Guido. "Radar Love, Flash Art, December.
"New Heimat", publication on the occasion of the exhibition "New Heimat", Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001.
Siegel, Katy, "First Take: New Art, New Artists, Artforum, January 2001, p. 121.
2000
Baers, Michael. "An Art Enclave Heats Up in Chinatown, Art.
Berget, Bill "Featured Stories: Marking Time as a Material in Film and Video opens at the Palm Beach ICA onview.com, April 18.
Bowers, Andrea. "Nasty, or unclean, offensive, indecent, inclement. Monica Bonvicini interviewed by Andrea Bowers", Monica Bonvicini: Scream and Shake, pp. 30-38.
Cappellazzo, Amy Making Time: Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary Video & Film. New York: DAP, March 2000.
Guequierre, Nathan. "Karaoke Voyeurism, Shepherd Express Metro, November 9.
Harvey, Doug. "Its Chinatown, LA Weekly, May 5-11, p. 49.
Hunt, David "Andrea Bowers at Sara Meltzers On View Frieze, Issue 50, Jan/Feb,.p. 94-95.
Pagel, David "Thrilling and Shiny, Bowers Work Resonate Los Angeles Times, Feb 25, F3.
Pagel, David. "Andrea Bowers, Artist, Los Angeles, Artforum, Sept/Oct.Vol. 20, No. 5.
Snow, Vicki. "Unfinished History, TGIF, Feb. 5, pp. 12-17.
Thater, Diana. "A Living Theater, Magazin [4] Salzburger Kunstuerein.
1999
Amanshauser, Hildegund, "A Living Theatre, Salzburger Kunstverein, Magazin 4, 1999, pp. 76-83.
Cappellazzo,Amy. "Im the Boss of Myself",Im the Boss of Myself or Please Release Me Let Me Go, New York: Sara Meltzers on View, illustration: p. 3.
Darling, Michael. "Michael Darlings (MuseumGallery) Top 10 Plus 10. LA Weekly. Jan. 8-14
Grabner, Michelle "Unfinished History Frieze. Issue 46, June-July.
Knode, Marilu "Unfinished History Art/Text. No. 65, May-July: 93-94.
Schurmann, Wilhelm, "More than meets the eye, exhibition catalog, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1998
Bonami, Francesco. Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, p.15-33, Illustrations:p.66-69.
Calame, Ingrid. In the Polka Dot Kitchen, Foundation Press,1998:19-42.
Coleman, Sarah, Glen Helford and Sylvia Tan. "Wings of Desire/Floss, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, February.
Darling, Michael. "Crowd Control Frieze, Issue 38, Jan- Feb: 52-53.
Demetre, Jim. "End of the world? I Feel Fine Seattle Weekly, Feb.
Fogle, Douglas. "Andrea Bowers GUARENE ARTE 98, Torino, Italy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte: pp. 12-16.
Fredericksen, Eric. "Deeply Shallow The Stranger, February 19.
Kangas, Matthew. "Flower Power and Frivolities, The Seattle Times, February 12.
Kelly, Ruby. "The Ruby Kelly Column, Art Review, April.
"L.A. Trained Artists Shown at Art Institute, San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Martin, Victoria. "Andrea Bowers at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Artweek.
McEwen, John. "Couldnt Get Ahead, Sunday Telegraph, April 23.
Museum: pp. 8 33, illustrations pp. 52-55.
OReilly, John. "Art for Barts Sake, Modern Review, April 10, p. 33.
Rubin, David S., "Considering Audience: Reflections On the 1998 Phoenix Triennial, 1998 Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, pp. 8-33, illustrations on pp. 52-55.
Webster, Mary Hull. "Wings of Desire and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute, Artweek, April, pp. 19-20.
Zellen, Jody, Andrea Bowers Spectacular Appearances at the Santa Monica Museum of Art Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 1998, p. 22.
1997
"Im Still In Love with You, exhibition catalog, Twentieth Century Womens Club, curated by Steven Hull, p. 3 & 4.
Greene, David A. "Hot Coffee Frieze, Issue 43, May: p. 76.
Pagel, David. " Voyeurs Paradise at Santa Monica Place Los Angeles Times, Friday, December 19th: F33.
Saltz, Jerry. "Regular-No Sugar Time Out New York, Issue 75, Feb. 27 March 6: p. 40.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "La-la Band Village Voice, February 18.
1996
Darling, Michael. "Box Tops Santa Barbara News-Press, Feb: 2.
1995
Baker, Kenneth. "Taking Art Into Their Own Hands San Francisco Chronicle, June 2nd: C1& C5.
Craddock,Sacha. London Times, April 5th.
Darling, Michael. " Pretty at FOOD HOUSE Artweek, March: 38-39.
Feaver, William. "Smart Habits and Sharp Practice London Observer, April 23.
Greene, David S. "Andrea Bowers Art Issues, No. 36, Jan Feb, p. 41
Kent, Sarah. " Art Review, Time Out, April: p.51.
1994
Davidson, Leanne Alexis. "Three Day Weekend, Real Life Magazine, No. 23, ill. p. 35-36.
1993
Crosby, Gregory. "The Professors Guide to Vegas Kulcher SCOPE, October.
Devine, Rory. "Heaven Missing Picture Book #4.
Frank, Peter. "Picks of the Week, LA Weekly, August 27, p. 131.
1992
Heartney, Eleanor. "The Imp of the Perverse ARTnews, September.
Jarrell, Joe. "Reviews Sculpture, September/October.
Jones, Amelia. "Public and Private Pleasures Art Issues, Sept Oct.
Pagel, David. "Art Review Los Angeles Times, March 20th.
Rugoff, Ralph. "Sex Objects LA Weekly, April 2-8.
Selwyn, Marc. "FOOD HOUSE: LAs Newest Alternative Space Flash Art, Nov/Dec.
Pagel, David. "Window on LA LA Art Fair Catalog.

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2026
Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2023
O’Connell, Lauren R. "Language in The Times of Miscommunication," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (exhibition catalogue)
2021
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and; Butler, J. (2021). New time: Art and; feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 170-171. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Darling, Michael and Connie Butler. "Andrea Bowers," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center Inc., and DelMonico Books, New York
Wassan Al-Khudhairi, and Misa Jeffereis. Foreword by Lisa Melandri. "Stories of Resistance," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MI pg. 22, & 52
2019
Gygax, R., Munder, H., Ritter, N., Düttmann, A. G., Crimp, D., Lebovici, E., Kerr, T., Himmer, E., and Bindermann, B. (2019). United by Aids: An anthology on Art in response to HIV/AIDS. Pg 208-209. Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst and Scheidegger and Spiess
Bowers, Andrea, Maria Elena Buszek, Ciara Ennis, Peter R. Kalb, and Rebecca McGrew. "Andrea Bowers," Pomona College Museum of Art, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY
2018
Artists and their Book/Books and their Artists. Getty Publicatios, pgs. 48-49
2013
Joyce, J., Salvesen, B., Adamson, G., and Gibson, W. (2013). Labour & Wait. Pg 35, 54-55, 97-99. Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2006
"Who is Marla Ruzicka? Artist Project, InterReview, pgs 4-11

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2011
Anonymous Was a Woman, Grant Recipient Art Matters, Grant Recipient
2010
FOCA Fellowship, Grant Recipient
2009
The California Community Foundation Arts Fellowship
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2008
United States Artists Broad Fellow
2003
City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts
1998
Nominee, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte Prize
WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture

Performances

1993
"Indignant Fairy," Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1991
"Cafeteria," The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

Artspace, San Antonio, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Compound, Long Beach, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Historic Broadway Station, Los Angeles, CA
Ingvild Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Rennie Museum Collection, Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Tate Modern, London, UK
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Roberto Diago

1971
Born in Marianao, Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in Havana, Cuba
1990
San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Presence," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"Of Truth and Time," Artizar Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
2024
"Lights in the Shadows," Galeria El Apartamento, Havana, Cuba
"Diago: The Past of this Afro-Cuban Present," Art Museum Of The Americas, Washington DC
"Juan Roberto Diago: Foraged Materials, Assembled Histories," Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
"Diago and its Afro-Cuban Legacies," Stephens College Library, Missouri, Columbia, MO
2023
"30 Years, 30 Faces," Rum Museum, Havana, Cuba
"The Darkness Was the Beginning"," Casa América, Madrid, Spain
"Roberto Diago," Vallois Gallery, Paris, France
"The Darkness Was the Beginning," Centro de Arte Juan Ismael CAJI Islas Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
"Diago: An Art for All Time," Clément Foundation, Martinique
2022
"Diago: The Past of this Afro-Cuban Present," Fine Art Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
"Witness of Time," Artizar Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
"Tribute," Villa Manuel Gallery, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
2019
"Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban Present," Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
"Juan Roberto Diago: 20 Years of Creation," Cernuda Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
"The Remembered Story," Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2017
"Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban Present," Ethelberth Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2016
"Imprint of a Memory," Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
"On my steps (Sur mes pas)," Vallois Galerie, Paris, France
2015
"Roberto Diago and Abstraction," Panamerican Art Projects, Miami, FL
"Tracing Ashes," Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2014
"The Skin that Speaks," Gallery of the Rubén Martínez Villena Public Library, Havana, Cuba
"On my steps," Tristá Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
2013
"The Power of Your Soul," Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
2012
"Between the Lines," MAGNANMETZ Gallery, New York, NY
"Project "D".11th Biennial of Havana," John Lennon Park, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
2010
"The two together," Two person exhibition, Art Center, Arenal Electa Room, Holguín, Cuba
2009
"A Place in the World," Villa Manuela Gallery. Havana, Cuba
"Utopia," Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
"Roberto Diago," International Seminar: "Rite and Representation" Benito Juárez House, Havana, Cuba
2008
"Roberto Diago," El Torco Gallery, Cantabria, Spain
"Siempre Vuelv," Tristá Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
2006
"What I Want Is to Live," (e)space gallery, Madrid, Spain
"The Power of Presence," 9th Havana Biennial, Central Exhibition, Havana, Cuba
"Drawings. Roberto Diago," Office of the City Historian, Camagüey, Cuba
"Roberto Diago," Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal
"Roberto Diago," Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Joy of Living," Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"A little of me," Spativm Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
"Joy of Living," Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2004
"Carta Menu," Hotel Inglaterra, Havana, Cuba
"Both in Colón," Two person exhibition, Columbus Art Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba
2003
"Moments," XII International Book Fair, Onelio Jorge Cardoso Room, Complex Cultural Morro-Cabaña, Havana, Cuba
"Here what you don’t have to do is die," Downtown Contemporary Art Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2002
"Juan Roberto Diago: Recent works," ArteConsult Gallery, Panama
"Eating Knife," National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
2001
"Roberto Diago: Paintings," Benito Ortíz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
"Diago in Puerto Rico," Space 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000
"The Black and the Cigar," Two person exhibition, Revolution and Culture Magazine, Gallery Open Space, Havana, Cuba
"You don’t have to fly to make a dream," The Lair, Havana, Cuba
"Paintings by Roberto Diago," 19th Jazz Festival, Hotel Riviera, Havana, Cuba
1999
"Roberto Diago," Peintre Contemporain Cubain, Mairie de Paris Centre, Lyon, France
"Roberto Diago," Amédée Maratier Prize 1999, Galerie Etats d’Arts et Fondation Kikoïne, Paris, France
1998
"Aller / Retour (Round Trip)," Lunéville Theatre, Lunéville, France
"Issues," La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1997
"Black Tears," Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
"After Venice," Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1996
"Paintings by Roberto Diago," Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba
1995
Mural Project, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
1994
"Landscapes," Oloron, France
"Forest Motivs," Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"HB Cuban Contemporary Art," Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"Exhibition Cultural Creativa: Who was calling Elpidio Valdés?," La Manigua Project, Havana, Cuba
"National Sculpture Salon, 40 years CODEMA," White Room Convent San Fransisco de Asis, Havana, Cuba
"Memory of an Exhibition by Ruperto Jay Matamoros and
Roberto Diago," Salcines Gallery, Guatánamo, Cuba
"Cuban Discharge," Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa County, CA
"All the Glory of the World," José Marti Memorial, Havana, Cuba "Memory of an Exhibition by Ruperto Jay Matamoros and Roberto Diago," René Gallery, Valdés, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
"The Art Of Today," Cernuda Arte, Miami, FL
"Decade Volume II," El Apartamento Gallery, Madrid, Spain
"Decade Volume I," El Gallery Apartment, Havana, Cuba
"It is born to me," Maxima Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"Persistence," Two person exhibition of the artist Roberto Diago and Carlos Nicanor," Madrid, Spain
2023
"Open Box," The Apartment – Galleria Zapata, Coral Way, Miami, FL
"Look at me, Mother," International Press Center, Havana, Cuba
2022
"I come from the sun and I go to the sun," José Martí Memorial, Havana, Cuba
"Art with Art," José Martí Memorial, Luciano Méndez Collection, Havana, Cuba
"Behind the Wall is the Love," Hispano-American Center of Culture, Havana, Cuba
"Ĩ NDAFFA," 14th Dakar Biennial, Senegal
"My Past, " The Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Boston, MA
"Subverted Resistance," Germany
"Roads That Do Not Lead to Rome," Fourteenth Havana Biennial, W. Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
"Songs of Grito," DA2 Domus Atrium, Salamanca, Spain
2021
"Face to Face," Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
"Artists Speak #5," Foundation Darryll Chapell, Online Event
"Roads do not lead to Rome, Coloniality, Decolonization and
Contemporaneity," 14th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
"More Lights and Shadows," Carmen Montilla Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2020
"They are from Havana," Artizar Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
"Visionary Aponte," Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
"Archives of Conscience: Six Cuban Artists," Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT
2019
"V.I.P Zone (1)," NG Art Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"Visionary: Art and Black Freedom," Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
"A Round Trip," Domus Artium Gallery 2002, Salamanca, Spain
"Private Collection, ArteMorfosis Cuban Art Platform, Zürich, Switzerland
"Majestic Havana," Iberostar Gran Packard Hotel, Havana, Cuba
"Broken lines," Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"12+1," Studio Gallery "The Trades," Havana, Cuba
"Project The Infinite Possibility, Thinking about the nation, Nothing personal," Central Program XIII Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
"Behind the Wall Project," Liquid Scenario, Central Program XIII, Havana Biennial Pier, Havana, Cuba
"HB," Collateral Program XIII Havana Biennial, Alicia Alonso Grand Theater of Havana, Havana, Cuba
"3≠3 (three different from three)," Collateral Program XIII Havana Biennial, Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2018
"Visionary Aponte Art & Black Freedom," New York University, New York, NY
"Fire," City of Science and Industry, Paris, France
"Ola Cuba," Saint Sauver Station, Lille, France
"+53 Cuba Yes," Vallois Gallery, Paris, France
"Arts of Cuba. From the Island to the World," The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC
"Visionary Aponte Art & Black Freedom," Pawer Plant Gallery, Duke University, NC
"Good Vista Contemporary Art in Cuba," Clément Foundation, Martinique, France
"Inauguration of the Museum of Black Civilizations," Dakar, Senegal
2017
"The Power of Perception, mans lives and other think," PAAP ANNEX, Miami, FL
"Kcho and Diago: Early Works," PAAP ANNEX, Miami, FL
"Africa. Meanings.," Light and Trades Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"Time of Intuition," Viva Arte Viva, Biennial of Venice, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy
"Shipwrecked of Reason," Cultural Center of Pompano Beach, FL
"On the Horizon Contemporary Cuban Art from Jorge M. Pérez Collection," PAMM, FL
"Without Masks," National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
"Paris – Cotonou – Paris," Galeria Vallios, Paris, France
"Visionary Aponte Art & Black Freedom," Haitian Cultural Art Alliance Center, Art Basel, Miami, FL
"Important Cuban Artworks, Volume Fifteen," Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2016
"Drapetomania," The African American Museum in Philadelphia, (AAMP), Philadelphia, PA
"Parallel Worlds," Art Factory, Havana, Cuba
"Origins," Origins of the Great Gallery, Alicia Alonso Theater, Havana, Cuba
"Basic Instinct (CNAP)," Institute Cervantes, Rome, Italy
"Strength and Blood. Imagery of the Flag in Cuban Art,"
(Traveling Exhibition), Cuba Pavilion, CNAP, Alicia Alonso Grand Theater of Havana, Cuba
"The Mother of all the Arts," Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
"Transhumance," Brussels Art Centre (CAB), Brussels, Belgium
"Ostralle Biennale," Poland
"Two Steps Forwards: Contemporary Cuban Art," Terri and
Steven Certilman Collection, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
"Free Kuba," Rosctock Museum, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
"The Caribbean: A Collector’s Point of View," Panamerican ArtProject, Miami, FL
"Blank Space," Hispanic American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
"Insular Line," La Cometa Gallery – Havana Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
"Important Cuban Artworks: Volume Fourteen," Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2015
"1,305 Miles: Timeless," MAGNANMETZ Gallery, New York, NY
"Until Forever, Ajaccio in the Moment of Cuba," Fesch Palace, Corsica, France
"Reunions," Rum Museum Gallery, Havana, Cuba
"Drapetomania," (Traveling Exhibition), Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Boston, MA
"International Colloquium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean," Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
"Free Zone," Collateral Program. Twelfth Havana Biennial, Morro-Cabaña Complex, Havana, Cuba
"HB. Collateral Program," Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
"Inauguration of the Romerillo Organic Museum (MOR)," KCHO Studio, Collateral Program, Twelfth Havana Biennial, Cuba
"Public Restrooms, Private Spaces," Collateral Program of the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
"Made in Cuba," Cuban Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
"New Colors," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Modern Times," UNESCO (Hall Segur), Vallois Gallery, Paris, France
"Important Cuban Artworks," Volumes Twelve and Thirteen. Cernuda Art Gallery. Coral Gables, FL
2014
"THREE for Trinidad," Benito Ortiz Borrel Universal Art Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
"Fresh Painting," Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
"Permission to be Global (Global Practices in the Ella Fontanal-Cisneros Collection," (Traveling Exhibition) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Drapetomania: Antillean Group and Afro-Cuban Art," The 8th Floor Gallery, New York, NY
"They meet while rolling," Contemporary Cuban Art in the
CNAP Collection, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center (SUPEC), Shanghai, China
"Absolut Kuba! Cuban Contemporary Art, From the Terri and Steven Certilman Collection and Discoveries in Art," The Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
"Without Masks," Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2013
"Painting, Sculpture, Photography," Nuno Sacramento Gallery, Portugal
"11 Cuban Artists of Today," Museum Servando Cabrera Library, Havana, Cuba
"Drapetomanía," Universal Art Gallery, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
"Bola Viva. Cuban Painting of Today," Débora Arango Exhibition Hall, Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, Bogota, Colombia
"Waiting for the Idols to Fall," 8th Floor Gallery, New York, NY
"Cuban Forever," Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
"Dilated Biography: Contemporary Cuban Narratives," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens," Queens Museum, New York, NY
2012
"Pieces of Existence," Tristá Gallery, Office of the Conservator of Trinidad, Cuba. Expo-Tribute to the artist Vicente Bonachea
HB2, Cuban Contemporary Art Exhibition 11 Havana Biennial," PABEXPO, Havana, Cuba
"Deeply Superficial, Project Liudmila López Domínguez," Havana Biennial, Havana. Cuba
"Bola Viva," La Gallery Barranquilla Customs, Colombia
"Beyond the Frame," Gallery 27, London, UK. Travelled to The Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
"Keloides III at Harvard (Scars)," Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Cambridge, MA
"40 years of Engraving in Cuba," Gallery Space for Cuban Art, Center for Cuban Studies, New York, NY
"Message from Havana," Contemporary Cuban Artists Zanebennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Awards & Honors

2002
Distinction for National Culture. Granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba
1999
Amédée Maratier Prize 1999. Presented by the Kikoïne Foundation, and the Foundation for French Judaism
Raúl Martínez Special Prize
1995
III Prize. Juan Francisco Elso Annual National Prize for Contemporary Painting
1993
Honorable Mention: March 13th Competition, Sala Talía, Havana, Cuba
1990
Honorable Mention: Mirta Cerra Salon, Municipal Gallery of Bejucal, Cuba

Catalogues and Publications

2017
"Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban Present," Ethelberth Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Public Collections

Boston Fine Arts Museum, Boston, MA
Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
Cernuda Arte, Miami, FL
CIFO Collection, Miami, FL
Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzutti, Columbus, OH
District 798, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
East Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
HGN/HGN Collection, Duderstadt, Germany
Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Perez Art Museum Miami, FL
KAMÉLÉONE Foundation, France
Kikoïne Foundation, Paris, France
Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal
Museum 54, New York, NY
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Pan American Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Rubin Museum of Art: The Collection, New York, NY
Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal
Stephen Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
Terri and Steven Certilman: Discoveries in Art Collection
The von Christierson Collection, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Tonia Calderon

1987
Born in San Jose, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Endless," ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2025
"Unlearning," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Fragments of Again," Tonia Calderon x Spencer Guilburt; BMW Welt and Museum, Munich, Germany
2016
"Somewhere on the Moon," Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Invitation," Daniel Maltzman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Material Abstractions," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2025
"United State," Southern Guild Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Le Coeur De L’Art," Similien Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Heart Of," Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2015
"Cultivate," Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
"Hybridity," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography

2025
Urist, Jacoba. "ARTIST TO WATCH: Tonia Calderon Creates Striking Large-Scale Paintings Inspired by Poetry," Galerie Magazine, April 2
2022
Löblein, Markus. "BMW Presents ARTGIRLRISING: ART AS A STATEMENT," BMW, March 7
2021
"BMW Design: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION," BMW, April 7, 2021
2018
Acquino, Tara. "JORDAN: 2018 The Ones Campaign x Tonia Calderon," November 8

Public Collections

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

Mickalene Thomas

1971
Born in Camden, New Jersey
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2002
MFA Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2000
BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"All About Love," The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Traveling to The Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2025)
2023
“Je t’adore," Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
2022
"Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet," Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
2021
"Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
"Beyond The Pleasure Principle," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
"Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure," Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2020
"Better Nights," The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2019
"Jet: beautés du mois," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2018
"Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (Link)
"MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Link)
“Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2017
"Waiting on a Prime-Time Star," Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on Prime-Time Star," Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2016
“Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête,” Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (2017); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (2017); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018) (Link)
“the desire of the other,” Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
“Mickalene Thomas: Mentors: Muses, & Celebrities,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
2015
“Mickalene Thomas: MUSE,” Rivington Place, London, UK
“I am your sister,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2014
"I Was Born to do Great Things," Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Femme au Divan I," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Femme au Divan II, l’Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco
Tete de Femme, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
"Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman", George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
2013
"faux real – Lobby installation by Mickalene Thomas," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2012
"Origin of the Universe" Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA and The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Mickalene Thomas, Fotene Demoulas Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2011
Mickalene Thomas-Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"More Than Everything",Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
Something you can feel, <a href="http://www.laconservera.org/" target="_blank">La Conservera: Centro de arte Contemporaneo</a>, Murcia, Spain
"Shes Come UnDone!, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Whats Love Got To Do With It?, Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
2007
"The Unseen, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
"An Imitation of Love, Brawlin Spitfire Two, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Project Space)
2006
"Something About You… Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Brawlin Spitfire, Special Project, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023
"Singular Views: 25 Artists," Rubell Museum, Washington D.C.
"Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
"Resting Our Eyes," ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2022
"Positive Fragmentation," Organized By The National Museum Of Women In The Arts, On View At The American University Museum At The Katzen Arts Center, Washington, USA
“Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art,” Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021
"Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem," Traveling from Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, to Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
"Plural Possilbities & the Female Body," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2020
"Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
"Portraits, from the 17th to the 21st century," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
"Looking Forward," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
"On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection," Shimonoseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
"Never Done 100 years of Women in Politics And Beyond," Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019-2020
"Better Nights," curated by Mickalene Thomas, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2019
"Orlando," Aperture, New York, NY
"Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
"She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York," Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
2018
"Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Black Blooded,” Curated by Jessical Gaynelle Moss, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
“Cast of Characters,” Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
“Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Link)
2017
"Exposition D’été," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
“Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
“Body of Work,” Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
“The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness,” The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
“Man Alive,” curated by Wendy White, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
“Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors, Part I: Figuration,” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
“Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Power,” Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
2016
“tête-à-tête,” curated by Mickalene Thomas, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2015
"Future Seasons Past," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
"Resignifications," Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy
"A Room of Ones Own," Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Celebrity, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2014
"Bash: An Exhibition in Two Parts," curated by Daniel Mason, MaxArt, Woodstock, NY
"Post Pop: East Meets West," Saatchi Gallery, London
"Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
"Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time," The National Academy Museum, New York
"Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet, and Contemporary Art," Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
"Reflect, Cut, Construct," Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
"Aljira at 30: Dreams and Reality," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art, Edleman Arts, New York, NY
Pop Departures, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Domestic Unrest, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2013
"Glyphs: Acts of Inscription" Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College Claremont, CA
"Du Bois in Our Time," University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Body Language," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Art Basel, Lehmann Maupin, Basel, Switzerland
Expanding the Field of Painting, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Decopolis: The Talent of Others, The Proposition, New York, NY, curated by Mickalene Thomas
2012
Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
tête-à-tête, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Nailed, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011
American Dream, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Converging Voices/Transforming Dialogue:Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum of Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
A Room of Her Own, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Pittsburgh, PA
Posing Beauty Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, and University of Southern Californias Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Bling, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Building the Contemporary Collection:Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of at, Durham, NC
Images from a Floating World: 18th Century Japanese Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern Contemporary Art, Friedricks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, IL
Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2010
"The Global Africa Project, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
4 Eccentrics, The Proposition, New York, NY
Sharon Stone in Abuja, Location One, New York, NY
Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, Miami, FL
XX-XY/Gender Representation in Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Shrewd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, curated by Ellen Rudolph
Posing Beauty Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
"Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience," Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Versus Hous Projects, New York, NY
2009
Landscape Revisited Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Extended Family: Contemporary Connections Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Posing Beauty New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Creating Identity: Portraits Today 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
Black Is, Black Aint The Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
First Look, House of Campari, curated by Simon Watson, Los Angeles, CA
Remix Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Female Gaze: Women Looking At Women Cheim and Read, New York, NY
Crash Proof The Scholar and Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on Women, online exhibition
Elsewhere Saltworks, Atlanta, GA
The Glamour Project Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
CAN & DID – Graphics, Art, and Photography from the Obama Campaign Danziger Projects, New York, NY
2008
"Perverted by Theater," apexart, New York, NY
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Group Show, Andrhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Belle du Jour, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY
As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
City Stage, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Black Is, Black Aint, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and traveling to:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, (February 13 May 3, 2009)
H&R Block Artspace ar the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Temple Gallery At the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Sweet SweetBacks Baadasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Distinctive Messenger, House of Campari, New York, NY
Sex in the City, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Some Kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Flava, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, Canada
Prime Time, Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery, New York
My Love is a 187, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inspired in New York, Echo Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Not an Ocean Between Us: Voices of Women from Africa and the African Diaspora, Winston Salem
State University, Winston Salem, NC
Lag Time Line Up, Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY
Materiality, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York
The Pulse of New Brooklyn, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Armory Art Fair with Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Pier 90, New York
Do You Think Im Disco, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2005
Tete-a-Tete, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York,NY
NeoVernacular, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Five Artists, Five Projects, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Maximum Flavor, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2004
Glamour, Glory and Gold, The Proposition Gallery, New York
Seeds and Roots, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Its About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Me, Myself and I, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2003
Beauty, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
Pantone, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Because Im Worth It, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Hands on Hands Down, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2002
Why Dont We Do It In the Road, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
1999
Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Stockel Battel Gallery, Norfolk, CT
1997
Brush, The Yellow Door Gallery, New York
The Knitting Factory, New York
Downtown Community Television Center, New York

Performances

2009
Oh Mickey! Kreemart and the American Patrons of Tate, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
Professor of Music and DJ Dean of Admissions, MoMixx at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Film/TV/Radio

2012
Green, Tyler Interview with Michalene Thomas, The Modern Art Notes Podcast, June 18 (Link)

Curating

2022
"Set it off," Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, Parrish Museum, Hamptons, NY
2014
"By Invitation Only 3", Jeff Vreeland, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2013
"tête-à-tête," QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Another New York," Barclays Center, New York, NY
"Better Days," Art Bar at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 11- 15
"Decopolis: The Talent of Others," The Proposition, New York, NY
2012
"tête-à-tête," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2009
"The Brand New Heavies," Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015
United States Artists Fellowship Award, Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow for Visual Arts
2014
AICA Award for Best Show in a Commercial Space Nationally, Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great things, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (Link)
2009
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2007
Rema Hort Mann Grant
2002
Barry Cohen Scholarship, Yale University
2001
Paul Harper Fellowship, Yale University
2000
Presidential Merit Scholarship
1999
Elizabeth Stokel Battell Fellowship
Student Activities Graduate Assistant Award
1998
Pratt Institute Student Leadership Award
1995-1997
Pratt Institute Black Alumni Scholarship

Guest Lectures

2014
Mickalene Thomas in conversation with curator Lisa Hostetler, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
In Conversation: Larry Wheeler, Linda Dougherty & Mickalene Thomas, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Artist’s Talk, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Artist’s Talk, American University, Washington, D.C.
2010
Artists Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Artists Lecture, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2009
Generation Next: Mickalene Thomas and the Legacy, Santa Monica Museum, CA
Artists Talk, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2008
ReIGNITE: Making Art in the World, Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2007
MICA Senior Thesis Seminar, Brown Center Falvey Hall, Baltimore, MD
2006
The Stoop Series, Brics Rotunda Gallery & NY Magazine, New York, NY
2005
"Conversations with the Artists, MoMA, New York
2004
"Artists Voice, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2003
Fine Arts Seminar, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Artists Voice, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Two Years, Pratt Panel, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Artists Talk, Exploration Senior Summer Program, New Haven, CT

Residencies

2017
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Residency, Aspen, CO
2013
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2011
Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program at Giverny, France
2010
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
Durham Press, Durham, PA
2002-2003
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2001
Vermont Studios Center, Johnson, VT
1999
Yale Norfolk Summer of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

Catalogues

2022
Gay, Roxane, Kellie Jones. "Mickalene Thomas," Phaidon Press, New York, NY
2019
English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 426-427. Museum of Modern Art.
2021
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and Butler, J. New time: Art and feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 102-103. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
2017
Burton, J., and Bell, N. Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 172-175. New Museum.
2015
Blessing, Jennifer. "Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs," Aperture, New York, NY
Hudson, Suzanne. "World of Art, Contemporary Painting," Thames & Hudson, pg 186-187
Mullins, Charlott, Picture People: The New State of the Art, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2014
Talmor, Ruti and Rene Mussai, Glyphs: Acts of Inscription, Exhibition Catalogue, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2012
Cateforis, David, Ed., Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011
Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center
Beyond Bling, Ringling Museum of Art
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21, The Bronx Museum of Art
RE: COLLECTION Selected Work from the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2010
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum
2009
Mickalene Thomas, Regin de Murcia: La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography/Steidl
100 Contemporary Artists: L-Z, Taschen
The Glamour Project. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY
State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Dallas: amfAR and The Dallas Museum of Art and Sothebys
Posing Beauty: African American Images: 1890s to the Present, New York: Norton
Mickalene Thomas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery (essays by Kerry James Marshall and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis)
2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection
Art Now, Vol. 3, Taschen
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Now: Taschen Calendar
2007
FLAVA: WEDGE CURATORIAL PROJECTS (1997-2007) by Wedge
2006
Palm Beach Collects: The John Morrissey Collection
2005
Frequency: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
P.S.1 Greater New York

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2024
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
Egan, Maura. "Enterprising Artists Are Redefining Country Living in Picturesque Northwestern Connecticut," Departures, September 24 (Link)
Smee, Sebastian. "Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art," Washington Post, December 10 (Link)
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Carrier, David. "Deconstructing Race in Western Painting," Hyperallergic, December 1 (Link)
Adams, Kelsey. "Mickalene Thomas celebrates Black women at the AGO," Now Toronto, December 3 (Link)
"Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship with Focus on Diversity," Artforum, November 30 (Link)
Greenberger, Alex. "Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Diversity-Minded Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship," Art News, November 30 (Link)
Hernandez, Jasmin. "Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Run on Adoration and Activism," Elle, November 30 (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: The artist on reclaiming the black female body," WBEZ Chicago, November 28 (Link)
Nguyen, Long. "Posing Modernity," Flaunt, November 12 (Link)
Reid, Tiana. "What it Means When Columbia Does a Show About the Black Model on Its West Harlem Expansion Campus," Vulture, November 9 (Link)
Edelson, Sharon. "As If, Audemars Piguet Bring Stimulating Talk to Beautiful Setting," WWD, November 9 (Link)
Sargent, Antwaun. "Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence," New York Times, November 1 (Link)
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Diderich, Joelle. "Dior Lady Art Project Celebrates Great Women Artists," WWD, October 29 (Link)
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Stapley-Brown, Victoria. "Show turns a spotlight on the black female figure in Modern art," The Art Newspaper, October 23 (Link)
"Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," Apollo, October 1 (Link)
Pitts, Zac. "Mickalene Thomas Photography Exhibition," WDTN News, October 19 (Link)
O’Grady, Megan. "How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making," New York Times Style Magazine, October 15 (Link)
Gilson, Nancy. "Arts review: In depicting women in her life, painter Mickalene Thomas prefers flash, depth," Columbus Dispatch, October 14 (Link)
Binlot, Ann. "The Art of Being A Muse," Document, October 10 (Link)
Weber, Jasmine. "Mickalene Thomas Makes a Muse of Cardi B," Hyperallergic, October 9 (Link)
Kai, Maiysha. "High Art: Cardi B and Artist Mickalene Thomas Collab for W Magazine," The Glow Up, October 9 (Link)
Solway, Diane. "Cardi B Channels Hollywood’s Legendary Latina Glamour Queens in W’s Art Issue," W Magazine, October 9 (Link)
Azzarello, Nina, "opera ‘music video’ by maurizio cattelan & pierpaolo ferrari is as wild as you’d imagine," designboom (web), 4 October (Link)
Adrian-Diaz, Jenna, "5 Lessons in Feminist Art," The Cut (web), October 3 (Link)
Drew, Kimberly and Nicole Chapoteau, "Artist Mickalene Thomas Opens Up About the Importance of Diverse Bodies In Her Work," Harper’s Bazaar (web), October 3 (Link)
Keimig, Jasmyne, "Black Girl Magic, Mickalene Thomas, and Being My Own Muse," The Stranger (web), September 21 (Link)
Michael, Michael Love, "In Conversation: John Edmonds and Mickalene Thomas," Paper, September 19 (Link)
Pothast, Emily, "An Artist Pays Homage to Her Glamorous, Dying Mother," The Stanger (web), September 12 (Link)
Lee, Michael, "Wexner Center art exhibition to empower women, challenge art history norms," The Lantern, September 10 (Link)
Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein, "From Mark Bradford in Baltimore to Victor Hugo in LA: 33 Museum Shows Around the US Worth Traveling For," Artnet News (web), September 5 (Link)
Belcove, Julie L, "Artist Mickalene Thomas: "It was always a political statement," The Financial Times (web), August 31 (Link)
"Datebook: Our Top Columbus Events for September," Columbus Monthly (web), August 31 (Link)
Clemans, Gayle, "A look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ lesser-known photography at Henry Art Gallery," The Seattle Times (web), August 29 (Link)
Armstrong, Annie, "Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Zoe Buckman, More Will Make Art for Planned Parenthood’s ‘Unstoppable’ Campaign," Art News, August 2 (Link)
Najjar, Christina, "Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month," Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)
Small, Zachary, "In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas," Hyperallergic (web), July 24 (Link)
Stapley-Brown, Victoria, "Did Juergen Teller borrow from Mickalene Thomas’s work in Vogue Paris Rihanna shoot?" The Art Newspaper (web), July 24 (Link)
Upchurch, Michael, "Mother as muse in a powerful show of Black beauty," Crosscut (web), July 23 (Link)
“10 LGBTQ+ Artists who Redefined Contemporary Art,” Mutual Art (web), June 7 (Link)
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)
“My Big Break: 7 Artists on Early Milestones That Changed the Course of Their Careers,” artnet News (web), May 31 (Link)
Levere, Jane, "What Happens When Art History Gets Refigured," Smithsonian Magazine (web), May 9 (Link)
Whitley, Zoe, "Do-it-yourself, do-it-right-now," Financial Times Weekend, April 28
Dellas, Mary, "An All-Women Art Show Honors Acclaimed Artist Mickalene Thomas," The Cut (web), April 9 (Link)
Rosen, Miss, "Artist Mickalene Thomas makes portraits to bring out your inner Foxy Brown," Dazed (web), April 5 (Link)
Martinez, Jaime, "Interview with Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Curators for Volta’s 2018 Section," Arte Fuse (web), February 21 (Link)
Flock, T.S., "Re-Presenting Black History in Art," Seattle Weekly (web), February 14 (Link)
Cleman, Gayle, "Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art," The Seattle Times, February 14 (Link)
Cohen, Alina, "Artist Mickalene Thomas has a Message for Right Now: Resist," Observer (web), February 12 (Link)
Morosi, Sara, "An Exhibition that Retells America’s Past Comes to the Seattle Art Museum," The Wall Street Journal, February 13 (Link)
Hymowech, Gena, "Bang, Bang!," The Indypendent (web), December 26 (Link)
Almino, Elisa Wouk, "Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Smith, and Others are Making Art for LA’s New Metro Line," Hyperallergic (web), January 24 (Link)
Kinsella, Eileen, "Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Will Co-Organize VOLTA’s Special Curated Section," artnet News (web), January 26 (Link)
Zellen, Jody, “Preview of Exhibitions: Mickalene Thomas,” ArtScene, January
Ates, Tiffany Y., “How Mickalene Thomas is Ushering in a New Wave of Contemporary Art,” Smithsonian Magazine, January (Link)
2017
Sargent, Antwaun, “How Black Artists, Dealers, and Collectors Art Boosting the Careers of Their Younger Peers,” Artsy (web), December 14 (Link)
Byrd, Rikki, “Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories,” Hyperallergic (web), November 26 (Link)
Saltz, Jerry ,”The New Museum’s ‘Trigger’ is Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of That?” Vulture (web), October 23 (Link)
Magallon Areli Navarro ,” ‘Waiting on a Prime-Time Star’ explores black womanhood,” The Rice Thresher, October 4
Roffino, Sarah, “Behind the Screens,” Cultured Magazine, Fall (Link)
Schjeldahl, Peter, “The Art World as Safe Space,” The New Yorker, October 9 (Link)
Swanson, Carl, “This New Museum Exhibit Wants to Challenge Everything You Think You Know About Gender,” Vulture (web), September 21 (Link)
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone,” New York Times, September 15 (Link)
Mitter, Siddhartha, “Gallerist Jack Shainman Curates a Career-Spanning Show,” The Village Voice (web), August 8 (Link)
Fowler, Nancy, “Is upcoming Contemporary Art Museum exhibition opportunity for a do-over,” KBIA (web), August 2
Delaney, Lashea, “Contemporary Black Artists Are Redefining Portraiture in a Show at CAAM,” LA Weekly (web), July 21 (Link)
Sharp, Sarah Rose, “Artists Embrace the Grayscale,” Hyperallergic (web), July 20 (Link)
Amirkhani, Jordan, “Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star,” Daily Serving (web), February 22
Brantley, Rebecca, “Black Angels: Mickalene Thomas at the Spelman Museum of Art,” Burnaway (web), March 17
Robinson, Shantay, “Review: Mickalene Thomas shows how ‘black girl magic’ has been with us all along,” ArtsATL (web), March 24
Neuendorf, Henri, “In Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers Celebrates the Artistic Contributions of African American Women,” artnet News (web), March 31
“Virginia MOCA’s Summer Exhibitions Celebrate Contemporary Photography with Renowned Artist Mickalene Thomas and a Journey Through the South,” Artfix Daily (web), April 18
Thomas, Mickalene, “Kehinde Wiley,” Interview Magazine (web), May 22 (Link)
Lopez, Pablo, “Mickalene Thomas at MOCA Grand,” Contemporary Art Review LA (web), January 12 (Link)
Yates, Calder, “Reviews: Mickalene Thomas at MoCA Los Angeles,” Artillery, January / February (Link)
2016
Booth, Katie, “Mickalene Thomas’s awe-inspiring portraits, a meaningful refelction of black women in art,” New York Times (web), January 29
Felsenthal, Julia, “Mickalene Thomas on Her Photographic Muses,” Vogue (web), January 28 (Link)
Travers, Andrew, “Judith Scott Retrospective Leads Three New Shows at Aspen Art Museum,” The Aspen Times (web), March 17
Conley, Kevin, “State Craft,” Town & Country, April
Stapley-Brown, Victoria, “Mickalene Thomas: ‘A black woman’s existence on this planet is a revolutionary act’,” The Art Newspaper (web), October 16
Helmke, Juliet, “Studio Check: Mickalene Thomas,” Blouin Modern Painters, March
Campbell, Andy, “Critic’s Pick: Mickalene Thomas at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,” Artforum (web), November
2015
Salisbury, Vanita, Mickalene Thomas is Not Really a Subway Person, New York Magazine, February 6
Boucher, Brian, Mickalene Thomas and Kavi Gupta Feted Guests With an Armory Week Feast, ArtNet News, March 4
Valentine, Victoria L., For Artist Project, Mickalene Thomas, Nick Cave and Kehinde Wiley Reveal Their Favorite Works at the Met, Culture Type, March 31
Zeller, Heidi, Fourteen Artists Selected to Create Art for Crenshaw/LAX Line Project, The Source, April 15
Katz, Anita, SFMoMA, MoAD Showcase 20th Century Portraits, The San Francisco Examiner, May 21
Katz, Anita, SFMoMA, MoAD Showcase 20th Century Portraits, The San Francisco Examiner, May 21
Schuessler, Ryan, Blah, blah blah? Billboard art show confronts Missouri drivers head-on, Aljazeera America, May 31
Thomas, Mickalene, Mickalene Thomas Responds, ArtNews, June
Symonds, Alexandria, Mickalene Thomass Adventures in Italy, New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 17
Kino, Carol, Mickalene Thomas Publishes Monograph of Muses, The Wall Street Journal, June 25
20 Artists Who Make New York, Elephant, Spring
Tully, Judd, The Armory Show Contemporary Opens with a Flurry of Sales, ArtInfo, March 4
Tay, Michelle, Alexis Bittar Taps Contemporary Artists for 25th Anniversary Lucite Art, ArtInfo, February 15
Martin, Hannah, Alexis Bittars Fall Collection, Architectural Digest, February 19
Lamont-Djite, Tara, Alexis Bittar Celebrates New Collection with Charity Auction, Harpers Bazaar, February 19
Rosenfeld, Austen, Rhinestones are a Womans Best Friend, Style.com, March 6
2014
Saad, Shirine, Mom, Muse: Mickalene Thomass artistic ode to the life of her mother, Nowness, November 12
Davis, Florangela, The Weekend List: The arts and culture guide to Seattles good life, Crosscut.com, October 8
Messing Up Ideas of Beauty: The Queen of Afro-Kitsch, Mickalene Thomas Challenges Us All, Beautiful/Decay, October 9
Cooper, Ashton, Q&A: Mickalene Thomas on Finding Meaning in Material Things, ArtInfo, October 7
Silver, Leigh, Interview: Mickalene Thomas Discusses Creating a Different Kind of Portrait for her New Show I was born to do great things, Complex, October 1
Russeth, Andrew, Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great thing at Kavi Gupta, ArtNews, September 23
Meisinger, Ann, Mickalene Thomas // I Was Born to do Great Things, The Seen, September 20
Stamler, Hannah, Reviews: Mickalene Thomas, Lehmann Maupin, NY, frieze, August
Corrigan, A., New York – Mickalene Thomas, Tte de Femme at Lehmann Maupin Through August 8th, 2014, ArtObserved, August 3
Rosenberg, Karen, REVIEW: Mickalene Thomas, Tte de Femme, The New York Times, July 17
Guiducci, Mark, 4 Art Shows to See That are Not Jeff Koons, Vogue, July 15
Yablonsky, Linda, All Dogs Go to Heaven, ArtForum, July 1
"Mickalene Thomas Creates Masterpieces with Geometric Cutouts, TrendHunter, June 30
Arikoglu, Lale, Mickalene Thomas Brings Collage and Glitz to Lehmann Maupin, New York Observer, June 28
Frank, Priscilla, Mickalene Thomas Delivers the Most Stylish Philosophy Less of All Time, The Huffington Post, June 26
Rafferty, Rebecca, ART: The center of the universe, City Newspaper, June 25
Adam, Georgina, The rise and rise of the superstar artists, The Art Newspaper, June 20
Shaw, Catherine, The latest trends in creative floor art, South China Morning Post, June 20
Russeth, Andrew, Mickalene Thomas Delves Deeper into Cubism Collage, New York Observer, June 19
Valentine, Victoria, Mickalene Thomas Art Rug Debuting at Barneys, CultureType, May 6
Vaughn, Katie, A Bustling Time for Tandem Press, Madison Magazine, May 5
Newton, Mike, Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art, The Indypendent, May 2
Bell, Jonathan, Henzel gives us a preview of its new art rugs ahead of their Salone del Mobile unveiling, Wallpaper*, March 24
Cascone, Sarah, Mickalene Thomas Signs with Kavi Gupta, ArtNet, March 20
Nahmod, David-Elijah, Lesbian Artist Mickalene Thomas Tribute to her Mom, SFGN, March 7
Cheng, Susan, Housewives Get Their Revenge with Domestic Unrest at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, March 5
The Whitney Houston Biennial is Here to Make Your Feminist Art Dreams Come True, The Huffington Post, March 4
Shattuck, Kathryn, Whats on Monday, The New York Times, February 24
Thomas, Mickalene, A Different Type of Beauty: Painter Mickalene Thomas Eulogizes Her Late Mother, Creative Time Reports, February 24
Frank, Priscilla, Mickalene Thomas Directs Stunning Documentary for Her Mother and Muse, The Huffington Post, February 21
La Force, Thessaly, Artist Mickalene Thomas on her Film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, her Mother, and Creativity, Vogue, February 17
Obenson, Tambay, Artist Mickalene Thomas Honors Mother in Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2/24 on HBO), IndieWire, February 11
2013
Benrimon, Alex, "In the Artist’s Studio: An Interview with Mickalene Thomas," artnet, December 11 (Link)
Yablonsky, Linda," Elle Women in Art: Meet Eight Women Changing the Art World Today," Elle, November 14 (Link)
Sjostrom, Jan, "Fantasy landscape mural begins year-long stay at Norton Museum," Palm Beach Daily News, October 3
Gibble, Mary, "New Season, New Mural," Palm Beach Illustrated, September 17
Crandell, Ben, "At the Norton Museum, a natural vibe (hold the Jay Z)," SouthFlorida.com, September 17
"QF Gallery’s Tete-a-Tete," East Hampton Star, August 20
Traff, Thea, "Away with the clich," The New Yorker, July 29
Leland, John, "Slow dance in Brooklyn," The New York Times, July 19
Vogel, Carol, "At Art Basel, an Unslaked Appetite for Buying," The New York Times, June 13
Bailey, Stephanie, Basel: Mickalene Thomas Better Days Absolute Art Basel, Whitewall Magazine, June 12
"Mickalene Thomas’s Art Basel 70s Bar," Phaidon Blog, June
In the Studio with Mickalene Thomas, Art.sy, March 27
Knowles, Solange, Solange Interviews Mickalene Thomas, Opening Ceremony New News, March 25
The Soapbox Interview: Mickalene Thomas, The Laundromat Project, January 24
Mickalene Thomas: Seurats Rhinestones, Muse, No. 5 Vol. I, January 23
Cole, Lori, "Mickalene Thomas at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston", Artforum.com, January 21
2013-2013
Bianco, Marcie, Pop Theory: Mickalene Thomas and Bodies That Matter, After Ellen, January 15
2013
Cook, Greg, Mickalene Thomas: The Seduction of Blackness, 90.9 WBUR Boston, January 3
Solway, Diane, Musings on a Muse, W Magazine, January
2012
Kazakina, Katya, Exposed Mom as Sultry Muse, Amusement Parks: Chelsea Art, Bloomberg, December 28
McQuaid, Cate, Mickalene Thomas at the ICA a dazzling display, The Boston Globe, December 27
Corcoran, Heather, Mickalene Thomass Elegy, Interview Magazine, December
Hudson, Suzanne, "Mickalene Thomas at the Santa Monica Museum of Art", Artforum, December, pp. 282-283
tte–tte: Mickalene Thomas in conversation with Carmen McCleod, Art Papers, November/December
Gilbert, Alan, Mickalene Thomass How to Organize a Room Around a Striking Piece of Art, Art Agenda, December 13
Hicks, Cinque, "Psychological Spaces at Gallery 1600", Artvoices Magazine, November/December, p. 96
Mickalene Thomas: A Whole Lotta Woman, The Economist Prospero Blog, November 30
Plagens, Peter, "From Rooms to Revolutions", The Wall Street Journal, November 24: A20
Montpezat, Charlotte, "Le corps noir de l’Histoire avec Kehinde Wiley et Mickalene Thomas", Le Huffington Post, November 24
Baumgardner, Julie, "Scroll Contributor | Julie Baumgardner on Mickalene Thomas", Scroll, Paddle 8, November 12
Budick, Ariella, "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Brooklyn Museum, New York", Financial Times, November 7
Weschler, Michael, "The Bold Paintings of Mickalene Thomas", Architectural Digest, November
Gonzalez, Desi, "Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe", The Brooklyn Rail, November
Pollack, Maika, "Origin Stories: Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art and Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum; Rosemarie Trockel and Judith Bernstein at the New Museum", GalleristNY, October 30
Loos, Ted, "Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum", Sotheby’s Inside: On the Loos, October 23
Warren, Tamara, "Mickalene Thomas and ‘The Origins of the Universe’", Life + Times, October 22
Kustanczy, Cate, "Mickalene Thomas shows her soul at the Brooklyn Museum Special", Digital Journal, October 13
Roberts, Rebecca, "Some Thoughts on Mickalene Thomas at The Brooklyn Museum", Artinfo, October 9
Rauschenberg Political Show, ArtCaste, October 9
"Mickalene Thomas: A Star in the Art World", Arts Observer, October 6
Tam, Paulina, "The Brooklyn Cocktail: One Part Basketball. One Part Art." The Bare Square, October 5
Andries, Amanda, "Boldness Becomes Her: Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe at Brooklyn Museum", The Brooklyn College Kingsman, October
Wama, Chole, Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas, Modern Painters, October
Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Ebony, September 28
Ellis, Stacy-Ann, Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe, The Root, September 28
Happening | Opening of Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe Exhibition @ Brooklyn Museum, Paddle 8 Scroll, September 28
Chou, Kimberly, "One Artist’s ‘Origin’ Story", The Wall Street Journal, September 27: A26
Rosenberg, Karen, Mickalene Thomas Rediscovers Her Mother And Her Muse, New York Times, September 27
Smith, Roberta, Loud, Proud and Painted: Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, at Brooklyn Museum, New York Times, September 27
Sutton, Benjamin, Brooklyns Barclays Center Will Have Art by Mickalene Thomas, Jose Parla, and More, Boulin ArtInfo, September 21
Douglass, Lynn, "Want To See Great Art? Go To Brooklyn’s Barclays Center", Forbes, September 25, 2012
Simon, Lizzie, "A Mother and a Muse", The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2012
Dumas, DeShawn, Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomass Tete-a-tete, artcritical, September 16
Duray, Dan "Fall Arts Preview: Top 10 Museums Exhibitions", Gallerist NY, September 13
Sheets, Hilarie M., "Photographer and Subject Are One", The New York Times, September 12
Rosenberg, Karen, "Exploring Islam, Pompeii and the Factory", New York Times, September 5
"Mickalene Thomas, ‘Origin of the Universe’", Time Out Magazine, September 4
Mickalene Thomas Studio Visit, Boulin ArtInfo, September (Link)
Bodin, Von Claudia, Mickalene Thomas: Crazy, Sexy, Soul, Rolling Stone Germany, September
Female Persuasion, Fall Art Preview, New Yorker, September
Loos, Ted, People Are Talking About Art: Lush Life, Vogue, September
New works by multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas in Brooklyn Museum exhibition, artdaily.org, September
McGarry, Kevin, Mickalene Thomas, W Magazine, September
Wood, Eve, Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art LTD, September
Schad, Ed "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe", Art Review, June 19
Scene: Mickalene Thomas/Origin of the Universe, The International Review of African American Art, Spring/Summer Issue
Finkel, Jori, Mickalene Thomas, up close and very personal, Los Angeles Times, April 20
2011
Frankel, David, Mickalene Thomas, Artforum, December
Rosenberg, Karen, Mickalene Thomas: More Than Everything, The New York Times, October 20
Mickalene Thomas, conversation with Sean Landers, BOMB Magazine, June
Soul Kitchen: Studio Visit with Mickalene Thomas, Life and Times, May 23 (Link)
Maerkle, Andrea, Mama Bush puts black women in a powerful light, The Japan Times, April 8
Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
Pollack, Barbara, Rhinestone Odaliques, ARTnews, January
2010
Blasberg, Derek, Happy Birthday, Naomi!, V Magazine, Issue 65, p.38
Smith, Roberta, Print Fair 2010, The New York Times, November 5
Casagrande, Reggie, Feature: Mickalene Thomas: A Complex Vision, Lipsticktracez
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio, Winter, p.13
Gaines, Carl, The Cleopatra Jones of the Brooklyn Art Scene, Brooklyn Based, April 8
Laster, Paul, A Window on Art, The New York Observer, April 21
Rudolph, Ellen, Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Thompson, Haven, Creative Chic, W Magazine, April, p. 92
In The Flesh, V Magazine, Issue 63, Spring, p. 46-47
Versus, Faction Magazine, Issue 11, January
Wagley, Catherine, Bright and Polished, Daily Serving, May 28 (Link)
2009
Kazanjian, Dodie, Dreaming the Landscape, Vogue, November
Oates, Leah, Bedazzled: Fall 2009 Conversations with Mickalene Thomas, NY Arts, Fall
Cregan, Lisa, Cabin Fever!, CS Interiors, Fall 2009, p. 78-83
Miranda, Carolina, Features: Art Basel Miami: Sales May Be Soft, But the Party Goes On, WNYC, December 4 radio feature
Solway, Diane. Let Them Eat Cake, W Magazine Gallery Go-Round, November 4
Russeth, Andrew. Let Them Eat Cake, ARTINFO November 5
Yablonsky, Linda. The Moment: Sugar High at Haunch of Venison, T: New York Times Style Magazine, November 5
Gensler, Andy. The Moment: Rock on the Block, The Phillips de Pury Music Sale, T: New York Times Style Magazine November 19
Cox, Johanna, ArtWalk NY Turns 15, Honors Pat Steir, ELLE News Blog, November 18
Lunn, Natasha. The Moment: In Focus, Dressing Up at the ICP, T: New York Times Style Magazine October 15
Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas, Fantom: Photographic Quarterly Issue 01, Autumn: pp. 3-11
Mickalene Thomas: Odalisques, ARTCO October 8: online.
Muscionico, Daniele. Ein Sommer mit Donna, Die Weltwoche No. 40, October: pp. 60-61
Edelson, Sharon. ICP Year of Fashion Culminates with Dress Codes, Womens Wear Daily, Sept. 16, p. 26
Egan, Maura. The Moment: Boogie Down Productions at MoMA, T: New York Times Style Magazine, Sept. 25
Medwick, Cathleen. Arthouse, O: The Oprah Magazine Vol. 10, No. 8, August, p. 134-41
Egan, Maura. The Moment: The Girlie Show, T: New York Times Style Magazine June 30
Brielmaier, Isolde and Ivan Lopez Munuera, Something You Can Feel, Exhibition catalogue, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain
Adam, Georgina, Buoyant Basel Contrasts With Russian Reluctance, The Financial Times, June 13-14, p. 12
Douglas, Sarah, Basel Grins and Bears Pre-Boom Prices, ArtInfo, June 11
Lamm, Kimberly. Mickalene Thomas, Shes Come UnDone! The Brooklyn Rail May
Smith, Roberta, Mickalene Thomas Shes Come Undone!, The New York Times, May 1
Kerr, Merrily. Mickalene Thomas, Shes Come UnDone! Time Out New York April 23-29: p. 53.
Shaw, Cameron, Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin, Art Forum, April 21
Kino, Carol, A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones, New York Times, April 7
What Does Glamour Mean to You? Glamour April: pp. 260-7.
Leive, Cindi, The Glamour Project, New York: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Crisell, Luke. Body and Soul, NYLON April: p. 148.
Alexander, Lily, Mickalene Thomas: Shes Come UnDone!, Whitewall, April 2
Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers. Illusion, mystique, and plain beauty in sparkling paintings, The Villager Vol. 78, No. 43: April 1-7.
Go See: Mickalene Thomass Shes Come UnDone! at Lehmann Maupin in New York though May 2, 2009, AO Art Observed, March 31
Walker, Kara, Artists on Artists: Mickalene Thomas, Bomb Magazine, No. 107, p 72, Spring
Cotter, Holland, On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Art Market, The New York Times, March 5
Dailey, Meghan, In the Studio: Mickalene Thomas, Art + Auction, March
Jackson, Brian Keith, American Vision, Giant Magazine, December/January
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, exhibition catalogue, Rubell Family Collection
Bedolla, Myrtis. Rubell Show, A Stand Out, The International Review of African American Art Vol. 22, No 3: pp. 45-46.
Bonin, Claudia, Radar, Art Das Kunstmagazin, March 23
Cutler, Jody B. A Lineage is Not a Category, The International Review of African American Art Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 38-42.
Ditner, Judy, Ed. Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. New York: The International Center of Photography/Steidl
Haber, John. Post-Post-Black, Habers Art Reviews (www.haberarts.com) March
Finch, Charlie. Another Country, Artnet March 30.
Frank, Alex. NYC Armory Show: Sour Times, Bright Colors, FADER, March 13
Laster, Paul. The Armory Show, Two Piers of Peerless Entertainment, ArtKrush February 26
Goings On About Town: Art: The Brand New Heavies, The New Yorker February 23: p. 10.
Grabner, Michelle. Reviews, ArtForum February: pp. 197-8.
Finch, Charlie. Having a Rave Up! Artnet January 29.
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists: L-Z. Los Angeles: Taschen.
Leive, Cindi. The Glamour Project. New York: Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Robinett, Rae Anne. Mickalene Thomas, Beautiful Decay Issue Z: pp. 74-81.
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art. Dallas: amfAR and The Dallas Museum of Art and Sothebys.
Whats Up: Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, Studio Spring 2009: p. 5.
Willis, Deborah. Posing Beauty: African American Images: 1890s to the Present. New York: Norton.
2008
Ewing, John, New York: Perverted by Theater at Apexart, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
Tonchi, Stefano, Now Shopping: The Art Basel Miami Wish List, The Moment, NY Times Blog, December 5
Weinberg, Lauren, Jet Set: Black History Shines in Mickalene Thomas show at Rhona Hoffman, Time Out Chicago, Issue 195, November 20-26
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Art Now, Vol. 3, Taschen, essay by Vivian Rehberg
Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
Salsbury, Britany, Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint, ArtForum, May
Psyllos, Steven. USA Today: A Visual Mixtape, TRACE, issue 81
Pratt, Ken. Material Stealth, Wound, Fall, issue 4
Evans, Ali, A Portrait of an Artist by an Artist, Studio Museum Harlem Magazine, Spring
Watson, Simon. Mickalene Thomas: Lush Life, Whitewall, no. 8, Winter
2007
Rosenberg, Karen, At Fairs by the Beach, the Sands of Creativity, New York Times, December 8
Allan, Stacey, Mickalene Thomas at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Modern Painters, December 2007January 2008
Douglas, Sarah, Intimately Scaled Pulse Looks Promising, Artinfo, October 11
Goings On About Town: Shinique Smith / Mickalene Thomas, The New Yorker, May 7
Rosenberg, Karen, An Afternoon in Chelsea, New York Magazine, May 7
Cotter, Holland, Prime Time: Mickalene Thomas and Shinique Smith, New York Times, May 4
ES, Prime Time, Artkrush, May 2
Swartz, Anne, Sex Privilege and Power: The Paintings of Mickalene Thomas, NY Arts, May/June
Wiley, Kehinde, The Sexiest Image Ive Seen, GQ, April
Miller, Leigh Anne, Scope, Art in America, April
Hunt, Kenya, Rhinestones and Oprah, Metro, March 30
Miller, Rebecca, Shotgun Review, MyLove is a 187, March 18
Viafora Kress, Althea, Shaken, Not Deterred: Interview with Curator Brian Keith Jackson and artists Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Amie Smith, and Navin June Norling, vernissage-tv.com, February 25
Trends, Mickalene Thomas, Muse Magazine, January 10
2006
Thorncroft, Anthony,Basel Comes to the Beach, Financial Times, December 2
Lynn, Sue, One Gals Opinion of Art Basel, Entertainment and News, December
Youll have to stand in Line for the work of these hot, young Yale artists, American Art Collector, December
Camper, Fred, Desire in the Abstract, Chicago Reader, November 17
Peterson, Kristen, The Look is a Blast from the Past, Las Vegas Sun, October 27
Ross, Susan, More, More, More, NYArts, May/June
Valdez, Sarah, Frequency Bling and Beyond, Art in America, April
Gronlund, Melissa, Frequency, Frieze, March
Spence, Rebecca, How Street it is, ArtNews, February
Maximum Flavor, Bare & Bitter Sleep
Haber, John, Habers Art Reviews: Frequency, February
Genocchio, Benjamin, Exploring the Effects of Discos Beat, The New York Times, February
Cotter, Holland, Do You Think Im Disco, The New York Times, February
Stillman, Nick, Frequency, Brooklyn Rail, February
Oppenheim, Phil, 5X5 Five Artist/Five Perspectives, Art Papers, January/February
Ribas, Jose, Emerging Collectors: A Profile of John Morrissey, ArtInfo, January
Kastner, Jeffrey, Frequency, Art Forum, January
2005
Frank, Peter, Neovernacular, Good Clean Fun, LA Weekly, December
Sirmans, Franklin, This Womans Work, Essence, November
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
Feaster, Felicia, Five works by five artists 5X5 takes a mostly critical look at our media-drenched culture, Creative Loafing, October
Feaster, Felicia, Buy and Large exhibit explores our devouring desire for more stuff, Creative Loafing, June
Rimanelli, David, Greater New York 2005, Artforum, May
Wiley, Kehinde, Top Ten, Art Forum, April
Gardner, James, Theyre Unknown Under 30.., New York Post, March 23
New and Noteworthy: Queen Scene, Museums New York
2004
Weinberg, Michelle, Its All About Me, Miami Newtimes.com, November 25
Mills, Michael, Through A Fractured Lens, Newtimes bpb.com, November 18
Laster, Paul, Back-to-back at SMH: interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie, wburg, Vol. 4 No. 2, August
Nichols, Matthew Guy, Hands on Hands Down, Art in America, February
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, January 23
Goings On, The New Yorker, August 27
Kim, Christine, Hands on, Hands Down (brochure), Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Screening

2014
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman HBO Premiere, HBO Theater, New York, NY
Atlanta Television Festival, Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA
2013
The Poetics of Unforgetting, Hackney Picture House, London, UK, June 6

Public Collections

21c Museum, Chicago, IL
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Sender Collection, Miami, FL
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
West Collection, Philadelphia, PN
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA

Kim Dingle

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
1990
MFA, Claremont Graduate Univesity, Claremont, CA
1988
BFA, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
"Open Call For Blue Lemons," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2021
"Pudgey Pomona Presents," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Dingle Does O’Flaherty’s," O’Flaherty’s, New York City, NY (Link)
2020
"Restaurant Mandala," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2019
"I Will Be Your Server (the Lost Supper Paintings)," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Culver City, CA
2018
"Kim Dingle: Painting Blindfolded," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (Link)
2017
"YIPES," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013
"Wine Bar For Children at Mister Ling’s Market,” Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Kim Dingle: still lives,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2008
"Cake," Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2007
"Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty’s,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2000
"Kim Dingle Bell Gallery,” Brown University, Providence, RI
"Never In School,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1998
"Fatty,” Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
"Fatty and Fudge,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1997
"The Prisspapers,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1996
"Kim Dingle: A Survey,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
"Kim Dingle,” Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
SITE Santa Fe, NM
"Kim Dingle,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1994
"Kim Dingle,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1992
Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry,” Closet of Modern Art (COMA), California State University Los Angeles, CA
1991
"Portraits from the Dingle Library,” Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Dingle Library Presents Paintings of the West with Horse Drawings by Teenage Girls,” Parker Zanic, Los Angeles, CA
1985
"pre-History A Dog’s Bach is Worse Than it Sounds,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982
"Remembering Pencil,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
“Blindfolded,” Kim Dingle and Ranee Henderson, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"In the Midst,” JDJ Gallery, New York, NY
"The Kids Are Alright," Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"The Café," O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2023
“People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue,” albertz benda, New York, NY
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“For The Love Of Dog,” A.E. Sobieski Project Space, Studio44, Pasadena, CA
"Don’t Fuck with Our Humans" Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland
"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Wood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2020
"The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"WOMAHR," Fondazione Molise Cultura, Campobasso, Italy
"Home Depot Coloring Books—Anyone Can Do It," Gallery Platform LA, online
"Double Take," CMAY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain." David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2018-2019
"Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"Re-celebration," Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
"Shift," Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2014
"Secrets and Lies” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"The Avant Garde," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emillia, Italy
2013
"Untitled (Giotto’s O),” Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland
2005
"Light Options; A Selection,” Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2001
"Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990’s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"Uncomfortable Beauty,” Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera, New York, NY
"Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper),” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
"Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio," Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
"The End," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Emotional Rescue,” The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1999
"Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson DeLong, organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), Des Moines Art Center, IA; traveled to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Fundació "la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH "Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
"I’m the Boss of Myself", Sara Meltzer’s on View, New York, NY
"Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998
"Family Viewing," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Presumed Innocence," Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
"Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A. 1960–1997,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angles, CA
"My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Women’s Work: Examining theFeminine in Contemporary Painting," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
"American Kaleidoscope," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
"Early Learning," Entwistle, London, UK
"Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
"Playtime: Artists and Toys," Whitney Museum of America Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
"Space of Time," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraiture in the 90’s," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Gender, Myth and Exploration," University of North Texas, Denton, TX
"Wallpaper Works," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1994
"Mapping," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Stor
"Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Francis Colpitt; traveled to University of Texas at San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
"Arrested Childhood," Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1993
"Fourth Newport Biennial: Southern California 1993," The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1992
"Déjà vu," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"I Thought California Would Be Different, New Work in the Permanent Collection," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Fever," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Space of Time," America Society, New York, NY
"The Imp of the Perverse, Eight Artists from Los Angeles," Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
"Group Show: Mary Beyt, Kim Dingle, David Dupuis, Scott Grodesky," Rubenstein/Diacono Gallery, New York, NY
"Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists. The 1993 Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
"Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial," Washington, DC
1991
"The Store Show," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
"Les Fleurs," Parker/Zanic Gallery and Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Synthetic Histories," Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
"Con-Text," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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2023
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2017
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2016
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2014
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Miranda, Carolina, "Crazy Babies and Pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA’s ‘Avant-Garde’”, Los Angeles Times, September 10
2013
Tiberghien, Giles A, "The Imaginary Cartographic World in Contemporary Art,” Espace, Spring / Summer Farabee, Mindy, "The Many Lives of Kim Dingle,” pasadenamonthly.com, June 20
Vankin, Deborah, "Kim Dingle debuts ‘Wine Bar for Children’ at Coagula Curatorial,” Los Angeles Times, October 27
Eisler, Maryam, Ed, "Art Studio America – Contemporary Artist Spaces,” London: Thames & Hudson
2012
McLean, Madeline, "Dollies of Folly & Frolic: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater.” Daily Serving, April 11
Cembalest, Robin, "Having her cake and eating it too?” Let My People Show, April 12
Herzlinger, Jamie, "Kim Dingle-So Interesting! Feminist Artist,” Jamie Herzlinger.com, April 24
2011
"Goldmine,” Exhibition Catalogue: University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
2010
Gleason, Mat, "The Ten most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars,” Huffington Post, August 17
2009
Jacobs, Frank, "Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities,” New York: Penguin Group, p. 26
2008
Evangelisti, Silvia, "Arte Fiera/ Art First,” Bologna: Renografica edizioni d’arte, p. 366
2007
Cohen, David, "Art in Brief: Studies for The Last Supper at Fatty’s,” The New York Sun, April 7, p. 20
"Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, April 16, p. 24
Guest, Anthony, "Something personal this way comes,” The Financial Times, April 21
Kreimer, Julian, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater,” Art in America, June/July, p.196
Pagel, David, "Dingle’s Return is Delicious,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, p. E30
Dingle, Kim, "Guest Lecture.” Artillery, Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov/Dec
2006
"Heart of Palm; Sustainable wood and sensational art define George Yu’s addition to a 1920’s Los Angeles bungalow,” Interior Design, Volume 77, Issue 10 (1 August 2006), p. 232.
2003
Harmon, Katherine, "You are Here,” New York: Princeton Architectural Press
Tyler, Stallings, and Amelia Jones, David R. Roediger, "Whiteness: A Wayward Contruction,” Exhibition Catalogue, Laguna Art Museum
Hackett, Regina, "Contemporary Art Project Vividly Takes on Hot Button Issues,” Seattle Post- Intelligence, January 3
Chang, Richard, "Shining a light on white // A Laguna Art Museum show explores the meaning of whiteness. Series: whiteness.0331,” The Orange County Register, March 31
2002
Corrin, Lisa, "SAM Collects Contemporary Art Project,” Seattle: Seattle Art Museum
"Denver Art Museum gets highly sought after art collection,” Associated Press Newswires, February 8
Burch, Peggy, "Snooty Art Ideas get a Dose of the Warm and Fuzzy (Almost),” Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, June 23
Phelps-Fredetter Suzanna, "Take a Kid to See ‘Warm and Fuzzy’; No ‘Serious’ art here so just enjoy it,” The Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, July 7
Aernst, Mark, "The Art of Now/ Exhibit Challenges traditional Views, Viewers early Notions,” The Gazette, October 4
Voeltz Chandler, Mary, "Back to the Present; 25 Years of Contemporary and Modern Art Collecting Resurface in the in Dam Exhibit,” Rocky Mountain News, November 15
Jana, Reena, "Kim Dingle,” Artnews, May
"Retorno al País de las Maravillas, El arte contemporáneo y la infancia.” Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa”, Exhibition Catalogue
Honigman, Ana, "Kim Dingle,” Frieze, May
2000
Siegel, Katy, "The Long List,” Artforum, January
Stevens, Mark, "Built for Comfort," New York, Vol. 33, no.13, April 3
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Pragmatic Hedonism," The New Yorker, April 3
Kramer, Hilton, "Artgoers ! Avoid Deadly Esthetic Virus at Whitney," The New York Observer, April 3
Knight, Christopher, "Not Enough Reasons to Celebrate," Los Angeles Times, March 24
Reichert, Herbert, "The Search for Life in an Alien Universe," Review, April 1
Gopinath, Gabrielle, "A Patchwork Labyrinth," Review, April 1
Maxwell, Douglas F., "Biennal Lite," Review, April 1
Markham, Pamela, "Monumentalizing to a Fault," Review, April 1
Berdé, Olga, "Ants Flies & Blondes in the Global Village," Review, 1 April 2000, pp. 83-86.
Spadoni, Claudio, Alan Jones, Roberto Daolio, and Fernanda Pivano "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio,” Exhibition catalogue. Ravenna, Italy: Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna/Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta
"Whitney Biennial,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Richard, Paul, "Whitney’s Sampler; For Browsers, Biennial 2000 Goes Down Easy: Leaves no Aftertaste,” The Washington Post, March 31
Siegel, Katy, "Biennal 2000; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York" Artforum, May
Kutner, Janet, "New Looks; Whitney goes national with biennial survey of modern scene," The Dallas Morning News, April 23
Gilman-Sevcik, "New York’s Mega-Shows; Whitney Biennial and Greater New York," Flash Art, Vol. XXXIII, no. 212, May-June 2000
"Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America,” Torino, Italy: Hopeful Monster
Zeraman, John, "Time to take out the garbage? Mixing business with Politics, at Art’s Expense,” The Record, Northern New Jersey, March 24
Hall, Emily, "Childhood Art for More Than Children,” The Stranger, August
"The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"With a Child’s Eyes,” The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, July 9
Clayton, Alec, "Almost warm and fuzzy at TAM,” Fort Lewis Ranger, August 3 – 9
Mahoney, Robert, "Emotion Detectors,” ARTnews, October 2000, p. 42.
Gray, Channing, "Art Scene – Evil brats in party dresses,” The Providence Journal, November 30
"Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, November 27
"Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, December 4
Glueck, Grace, "Kim Dingle, ‘Never in School’,” The New York Times, December 1
Minola, Anna, Maria Cristina Mundici, et. al "da Warhol al 2000: Gian Enzo Sperone,” exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte,Turin, Italy:Hopeful Monster
Johnson, Ken, "’Uncomfortable Beauty’,” The New York Times, December 29
1999
Mahoney, Robert, "Miracles of Girldom," Artnet, January 12
Spada, Sabina, "Kim Dingle," Tema Celeste, no. 72, January–February
Siegel, Katy, "Kim Dingle: Sperone Westwater," Artforum, vol. 37, no. 6, February
Muchnic, Suzanne, "’Sunshine & Noir’," Artnews, vol. 98, no. 2, February
Salvioni, Daniela, "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
D ‘Souza, Aruna, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
Lovelace, Carey, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater” Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
Cho, Christina, "Kim Dingle” ARTnews, Volume 98, Issue 4, April
"ZOO,” July, Purple House Limited
Vogel, Carol, "Choosing a Palette of Biennal Artist," The New York Times, December 9
Plagens, Peter, and Corie Brown, "Hollywood’s Big Art Deal," Newsweek, 6 December
1998
Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Santa Monica." Art/Text, no. 60, February–April
Duncan, Michael, "Import/Export: Variations in Noir," Art in America, vol. 86, no. 4, April
Crutchfield, Jean, "Presumed Innocence,” Exhibition catalogue, essays by Kathryn Hixson and Robert Hobbs, Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
Newhall, Edith, "Art Preview: Galleries," New York, 14 September
Gilbert, David, "Interior Design’s Guide to Fall in New York," Interior Design, vol. 69, no. 11, September
Ichihara, Kentaro, "New Figurative Painting in the 90s," Bijustu-Techo, vol. 50, no. 763, November
Boodro, Michael, "People Are Talking about Art: Home Alone," Vogue (New York), November
Pinchbeck, Daniel, "Art Market: Our Choice of New York Contemporary Galleries," The Art Newspaper, no. 86, November
Wallach, Amei, "Malevolent Babies Busting Up Walls, Sharpening Darts," The New York Times, 1 November
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Kim Dingle," The New York Times, 27 November 1998, p. E43.
Wallach, Amei, "Vision of the Void Behind the California Sun," The New York Times, 29 November
Schwendener, Martha, "Kim Dingle, ‘Fatty and Fudge’," Time Out New York, 10–17 December
Willette, Jeanne S. M., "Kim Dingle and Cohorts: The Writer, The Bad Girl, and The Seamstress," Artweek, vol. 29 no. 11, November
Willette, Jeanne S. M., "The Little White Dress," Dutch, no. 19
"Arte e Mercato," Arte, No. 304, December
1997
Nittve, Lars and Helle Crenzien, Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A., 1960–1997,” Exhibition catalogue, Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Grisham, E, "Kim Dingle; Kara Walker.” Art Papers, v. 21, May/June
Connors, T, "Kim Dingle,” Sculpture (Washington, D.C.) v. 16, May/June
Kandel, Susan, "Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice? Not Quite," Los Angeles Times, September 19
Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week," L. A. Weekly, September 19–26
Fleming, Jeff, Women’s Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting,” Exhibition brochure, Winston- Salem, NC: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Kozloff, Max, "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L. A., 1960–1997," Artforum, vol. 36, no. 3, November
Gonzalez, Rita, "Poliester,” Winter 1997–98
Harvey, Doug, "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, November/December
1996
Greenstein, M. A., "A Conversation with Kim Dingle, Artist.” Artweek, January
Anderson, Isabel, "Kim Dingle at Otis Gallery," Artweek, January
Schjeldahl, Peter, "The Dingle Flap,” Village Voice, January 30
Rugoff, Ralph, "Crate Expectation," L. A. Weekly, January 12–18
Pincus, Robert L. "Dreaming of Me,” February 11
Lewis, Jo Ann, "Kaleidoscope, Pieces of a Dream," Washington Post, October 10
Jones, Joyce, "American Art, Through a Prism," Washington Post, October 11.
Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, November 24
Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, December 1
1995
Schaffner, Ingrid, "Kim Dingle: Jack Tilton Gallery," Artforum, vol. 34 no. 6, February
Cameron, Dan. "Kertess’s List," Art & Auction, February
Pagel, David, "Mayhem, Mischief & Little Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 7
Kandel, Susan, "Naughty Dolls Don’t Make for Bad Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 8
Darling, Michael. "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, March/April
Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles," Frieze, no. 21, March–April
Zellen, Jody, Art Press, April 1995
Kutner, Janet, "Artists Explore the Issues of Human Gender," The Dallas Morning News, April 30
Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle," Bomb, no. 52, Summer
Hoving, Thomas, "Art for the Ages," Cigar Aficionado, Summer
Morgan, Susan, "Little Miss Mayhem," Elle, November
Knode, Marilu and Peter Schjeldahl, "Kim Dingle,” Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design
Greene, David, "Born to Be Bad," Los Angeles Reader, December 8
Knight, Christopher, "Exposing the Inner Child of U.S. Politics," Los Angeles Times, December 3
Wilson, William, "Eccentric ‘Glimpse’ at Norton Collection," Los Angeles Times, December 12
Wilson, William, "Canvassing the Year of Brilliance," Los Angeles Times, December 31
Gamblin, Noriko, "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Exhibition brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art
Gauthier, Jennifer, Angela Kramer Murphy, and Cynthia Roznoy, "Playtime: Artists and Toys,” Exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of America Art
1994
Cohen, Jean Lawlor, "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” Art News, vol. 93 no. 2, February
Knight, Christopher, "’Bad Girls’: Feminism on Wry, Tone Bemusedly Subversive in West Coast Edition of N.Y. Show," Los Angeles Times, February 8
"The Space of Time," Art Nexus, no. 1, February–March
Edelman, Robert. "The Figure Returns," Art in America, vol. 83 no. 3, March
Roth, Charlene, "Bad Girls," Artweek, March 10–17
Lumpkin, Libby, "Bad Girls West," Art Issues, no. 32, March–April
LaBelle, Charles, "Biggest, Badettes," Cover, April
Weissman, Benjamin, "Bad Girls Blues: Los Angeles (Sigh)," Artforum, vol. 33 no. 9, May
Bertei, Adele, "Kim Dingle’s Wild Girls," Vibe, May
Clearwater, Bonne, "Arrested Childhood,” Exhibition catalogue, Miami, FL: Center for Contemporary Art
Kohen, Helen, "Naughty and Nice Show at COCA Explores Emotions of Childhood," The Miami Herald, May 22
DeLeon, Jessica, "Reshaping the Globes," Denton Record-Chronicle, September 25
Storr, Robert, "Mapping,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and Harry N. Abrams
Smith, Roberta, "Mapping," New York Times, 14 October
The New Yorker, November 7–13
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Bringing Up Baby," Village Voice, November 5
Auerbach, Lisa Anne, "Kim Dingle’s Cherubic Brats," Vernacular, Winter
Duncan, Michael, "L. A. Rising," Art in America, vol. 83, no. 12, December
Cameron, Dan, "The Easel Way Out," Art & Auction, December
Weil, Benjamin, "Mapping," Art Monthly, December 1994 – January 1995
Young, Geoffrey, "Kim Dingle," Lingo, no. 3
1993
Curtis, Cathy, "Upstairs Invigorate Art Scene," Los Angeles Times, January, Orange County Edition
Scarborough, James, Art Press, no. 178, March
Cottingham, Laura, "Fever," Frieze, March/April
Crockett, Tobey, "Violent Femmes," Visions, Summer
Hodges, Karen C, and Bruce D. Kurtz, "Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists,” The 1993 Phoenix Triennial, Exhibition catalogue, Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum
Wilson, William, "Biennial’ Uses Humorous Paradox to Tackle Issues," Los Angeles Times, October 9
Curtis, Cathy, "Painting Pictures," Los Angeles Times, October 14
Dash, Phillip, "Kim Dingle at Jason Rubell Gallery," Beach Weekly, vol. 1 no. 4
Guenther, Bruce, "Forth Newport Biennial: Southern California,” Exhibition catalogue, Bruce Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Museum
Demos, Alison V., "Bodies Galore," Lear’s, October
Richard, Paul, "What’s Wrong With This Picture?" Washington Post, October 31
McWilliams, Martha, "Go Figure," Washington City Paper, November 12
Russell, John, "The Corcoran Gives New Meaning to ‘Biennial’," The New York Times, November 21
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Littlefield, Kenny, "California Culture Clash," The Register, March 8
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Kandel, Susan, "Sly Homage," Los Angeles Times, June 26
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Curtis, Cathy, "Hers Is Unfinished Business," Los Angeles Times, September 23, Orange Country Edition
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1991
Curtis, Cathy, "Les Fleurs, Snipes at Flowery Tradition," Los Angeles Times, May 17
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1990
Frank, Peter. "Pick of the Week." L. A. Weekly, 26 October–1 November

Public Collections

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Denver Museum Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Laura Aguilar

Born: October 26, 1959 in San Gabriel, California
Died: April 25, 2018 in Long Beach, CA
Self taught

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003
"New Bodies of Work from Laura Aguilar," Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, TX
2001
"Center," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
"Stillness & Motion," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Stillness," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
1998
"El jo divers ("The Diverse Self")," Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art," Guest curated by Camilo Alvarez, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2024-2025
"For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2023-2024
"What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection," UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023
"Ecstatic Land," Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2021-2022
"Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (Link)
2018
"Reclaimed," Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
2007
"normal love—precarious life, precarious sex," Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany curated by Renate Lorenz
2006
"Mangnan Emrich Contemporary," Chelsea, NY, with Delilah Montoya
"This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Passing Through, Settling In: Photographs of the Desert," Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, curated by Kate Bonansinga
"Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute," The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, with Lynn Bianchi, Joel-Peter Witkin, Frank Yamrus, Mariette Path Allen, and Pierre et Gilles; Traveling to Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, ID
2004
"S.P.F.," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self," International Center of Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, catalog
"AC," 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jeff Koan Baysa
"Fat Attitudes – an exploration of an American subculture & the representation of the female body," Columbia University, New York, NY
"Fusion: A Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival," Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Koerper – Konstrukt – Schoenheit (Body – Construct – Beauty)," Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany, with Olaf Breuning, Mona Hatoum, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Zoe Leonard, Bjorn Melhus, Orlan, Jack Pierson
The Armory Show, New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"H2O," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002-2003
"Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (The Nude in the Art of the 20th Century)," Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (catalog)
2002
"water," The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Majestic Sprawl – Some LA Photography," Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, curated by Andrea Feldman
"H2O," Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York (catalog)
"The Beautiful Gender: Transformations and Continuities", Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, curated by Margarita Aizpuru, with Andres Serrano, Orlan, Cheryl Donegan, Martha Rosler, Nicole Eisenman, Daniela Steinfeld, catalog
"Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, catalog
"Super Sex," Post, Los Angeles, CA, with Nicole Eisenman, Nicoletta Munroe, Sharon Ryan, Naomi Fisher, curated by Michael Gold
2001
"COLA 2001," Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
"fotografia y sociedad," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Spain
2000
"Made In California," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Aztlan Today: The Chicano Postnation," Communidad de Madrid, Spain and Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, catalog
1999
"The Nude in Contemporary Art," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1998
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997-1998
"Sunshine & Noir – Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA, Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"American Voices: Latin Photographers in the United States," Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1996
"Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party," in Feminist Art History, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork
"Vital Signs," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"P.L.A.N. -Photography Los Angeles Now", LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"In a Different Light," University Art Museum of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Pervert," University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1995
"Temporarily Possessed: The semi-permanent Collection," The New Museum of Art, New York, NY
1994
"Encuentro Interamerieano de Artist Plasticos Exposicion," Universida De Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
"New Photography II/ New Acquisitions Exhibition," LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Bad Girl," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
"Aperto 93," LA Biennale di Venezia, XLVB Esposizione Internazionale d’Art 1993, Venice, Italy
1992
"Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Disorient: Perspectives in Colonialism," University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Ojo Abierto/Open Eye," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Working W/people," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
"L.A. iluminado," Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Forbidden Language: Beauty and Culture," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1990
"All But the Obvious," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"El Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA and The Women’s Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Image and Identity: Recent Chicana Art," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1989
"Contemporary Latin Photography," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
1988
"Mexican/Mexican American Photography," Mexico National General Archives Mexico D.F
"Visible Differences: Images of a Diverse U.S. Culture, A National Exhibition of 14 Photographers," Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
1987
"Women Photographers in America 1987," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986
"Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
1985
"Seven Latin Photographers," Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA

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Martin, Victoria, "Laura Aguilar at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Artweek
Sichel, Berta, "Aztlan Today: The Chicano Postnation”, Exhibition catalog, published by Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, 1999-2000
"Egg The Arts Show”, Section "The Body”, KCET Los Angeles (with Carolee Schneemann and John Currin)
Rosenberg, Howard: ‘EGG’: It’s Not Always Just Breakfast”, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 2
1999
Nochlin, Linda, "Offbeat and Naked", feature article on artnet.com, November
Smith, Roberta, "In Connecticut, the Scars of War, the Works of Peace", The New York Times, July 30
Cottingham, Laura, "Laura Aguilar”, ArtPace Exhibition Essay, May
McGovern, Thomas, "Depictions of Class in West Coast Photography", Artweek, January
1998
Gerstler, Amy, "Art Attack", Los Angeles Magazine, November issue
Jones, Amelia, "Body Art – Performing the Subject," University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1998
"El jo divers" ("The Diverse Self"), Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, SpaiN
Cruewell, Constanze, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ Kultur, March 21
Gross, Roland, Berliner Morgenpost, Feuilleton, March 19
Huther, Christian, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, March 21
Deutsche Presseagentur, March 19
1996
"Chicana Creativity & Criticism," 2nd edition, edited by Maria Hererra-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes; published by University of New Mexico Press
Jones, Amelia, "Sexual Politics / Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist art History," (catalog), published by UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Westwood
1995
"Reframings – New American Feminist Photographies," pg. 242, 243, 244, 245; edited by Diane Neumaier; published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia
"In A Different Light," pg. 93; edited by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder & Amy Scholder, published by City Lights Books San Francisco
1994
Foto Fest 94, pg.37, The 5th Biennial International Festival of Photography
Museo de las Artes, Universidad De Guadalajara (catalog)
"Uncontrollable Bodies – Testimonies of Identity and Culture," published by Bay Press
1993
Bad Girls (catalog), pg. 56, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
FlashArt, Aperto 93 Emergency
La Biennale di Venezia, XLV Espozsizione Internazionale d/Art 1993
1992
Frame-Work: The Journal of Images and Culture, Vol. 6, issue 1
Art in America, June 1992, No. 6, pg. 61
1991
Frame-Work: The Journal of Images and Culture, Portfolio 1991, Vol. 4
1990
The Photo Review, Vol. 13, No.3, summer 1990, Ed. Stephen Perloff, pg. 13
1987
The Photo Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, summer 1987, Ed. Stephen Perloff

Public Collections

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
State Finance Office of Hessen, Germany
Latin American Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, Santa Monica, California
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York, 2000
COLA, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, 2000
ArtPace, Residency, San Antonio, Texas, 1999
California Community Foundation’s J. Paul Getty Grant for the Visual Arts, 1998
The James D. Phelan Art Award – Photography, sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation, administered by SF Camerawork, 1995
California Arts Council Fellowship, California Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA, 1994/95
Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council, through the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, 1991-94

Lyne Lapointe

1957
Born in Montreal, Québec, Canada
Lives and works in Mansonville, Québec
1978
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Lyne Lapointe: In the Mood for Deviance," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"Spotlight: Lyne Lapointe," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Lyne Lapointe: Becoming Animal," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2022
"Lyne Lapointe: La femme enceinte," Curated by Sylvie Lacerte, Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC, Canada
2021
"Lyne Lapointe: De la soie aux poils de porc-épic / From Silk to Porcupine Quills," Curated by Lesley Johnstone and Stéphane La Rue, Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017
"Lyne Lapointe and La Fontaine’s Fables by Marc Chagall," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2015
"Lyne Lapointe," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Lyne Lapointe: Perches/Perchoirs," The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, NL, Canada
2012
"Lyne Lapointe: Oeuvres Choisies," Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Lyne Lapointe: Selected Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2011
"Lyne Lapointe: Cabinet," Musée D’Art De Joliette, Joliette, QC, Canada
2008
"Lyne Lapointe: La Clef," SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal, QC, Canada
2007
"Lyne Lapointe: La Perle," Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2004
"Lyne Lapointe: The Blind Spot," Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada; Travelled to: Musée du Nouveau-Monde, La Rochelle, France (2004); Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke Québec, QC, Canada (2005); Maison Hamel-Bruneau, QC, Canada (2005); Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada (2006)
2003
"Lyne Lapointe:The Blind Spot," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002
"Lyne Lapointe: La Tache aveugle," Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997
"Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1996
"Martha Flemming & Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1995
"Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe: Work 1984-1994," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1994
"Lyne Lapointe," Museu de zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993
"Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1989
"Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Curated by Bill Olander, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1988
"Lyne Lapointe/ Martha Fleming," Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montréal, QC, Canada
"New Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1981
"Lyne Lapointe," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Echoes of Circumstance," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
"Soft Focus," Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, QC, Canada
2022
"Stressed World," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Over the Rainbow: A Selection of Works by LGBTQ2S+ Artists," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021
"Anti/Body," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2020
"Les feuilles – Qu’on foule – Un train – Qui roule – La vie -·S’écoule (Guillaume Apollinaire)," Curated by Pierre Bourgie, Catalogue Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019-2020
"Peindre la nature avec un miroir," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019
"Dunkle Energie. Feministisch organisieren, kollektiv arbeiten = Dark Energy. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively," Curated by Veronique Boilard, Andrea Haas, Nina Hochtl and Julia Wieger, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien /Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2018
"Travelogue," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Terræ Incognitæ," Galerie Catalogue, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"En avant la Musique!," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017
"The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present," Curated by Jos.e Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Christine Lalonde, Rhiannon Vogl and Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
"Rien de moins," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"The Hold: Studies in the Contemporary Collection," Curated by Sunny Kerr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s, University, Kingston, ON, Canada
2016
"Mutations," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"De Ferron à BGL: art contemporain du Québec," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2015
"Chemin faisant," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2014
"The Beauty of Gesture," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2013
"Collection Luciano Benetton," Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
2010
"Femmes artistes. L’éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2009
"Above and Below," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
2008
"À la croisée de l’art et de la médecine," Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Universit de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada (Travelled to: Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)
2007
"Coup d’éclat: Acquisitions 2006-2007," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
"Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
2006
"Illumination Escapade," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
2005-2006
"Dessins de la Collection," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2005
"Science," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
"Animal Nature," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
"La Sculpture et le vent: Femmes sculpteures au Québec," Centre d’exposition CIRCA, Montréal, QC, Canada
2000
"Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000," Galerie d’art Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
1999
"Les Bouches ouvertes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Québec, QC, Canada
1997
"Exquisite Corpses," Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Telling Stories: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
"En cause: Brancusi, une fiction de l’atelier," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"Présences: l’art contemporain au féminin," Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada
1996
"La Collection: OEuvres-phares," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1995-1996
"Seeing in Tounges: A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Québec," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995
"Pervert," The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1994
"Dreaming of You," Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Well-Spring," Bath Festival Trust, Bath, England, UK
"La Collection Lavalin du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Biennale de São Paulo," São Paulo, Brazil
"De causis et tractatibus," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
1993
"Objets choisis," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1992
"Queues, Rendezvous, Riots: Questioning the Public in Art and Architecture," Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, Canada
"La Collection: Tableau inaugural," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Pour la suite du Monde," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Edge 92 Bienniale," London, UK and Madrid, Spain
1991
"Outrageous Desire: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representation in Recent Works by Lesbian and Gay Artists," Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
1990-1992
"Team Spirit. — An Independent Curators Incorporated," Curated by Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli Sundell, New York, NY (Travelled to: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (1991); Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (1991); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1991); The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (1991); Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC (1992); Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA (1992); Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (1992))
1990
"Queer," Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
"The Collector’s Cabinet," Curated by Carol Anne Klonarides, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1989
"Une histoire de collections: dons 1984-1989," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1988
"Installations: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
1984
"Face à face: Auto-portraits," Powerhouse, Montréal, QC, Canada
1983
"Künstler aus Kanada: Räume und Installationnen," Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1982
"Photographs by Artists," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada
1981
"Betty Goodwin, Jene Highsteen, Lyne Lapointe, Marcel Lemyre, Keith Sonnier," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2012
Québec studio in New York, Council of Arts and Letters of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada
1998
Prix Graff, Duo Lapointe/Fleming, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997
Prix Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Bibliography

2025
Clement, Eric. "In Lyne Lapointe’s studio The resilient," La Presse, May 18
Worthington, Corinne. "Separating the Art from the Artist," Impulse, March 25 (Link)
Martinovic, Jelena. "Lyne Lapointe’s New Body of Work Explores the Body in Flux," Loophole, March 24 (Link)
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. "Exhibitions in New York: fruitful metamorphoses," LeDevoir, March 22
Cultured Staff. "This Month, Show Up for These 12 Unmissable New York Solo Shows by Women Artists," March 3 (Link)
2022
ArtsSutton. "Lyne Lapointe exhibits The Pregnant Woman," Westmount Mag, July 28 (Link)

Public Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Brown University Art Museum, Providence, RI
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, QC
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON

Ever Baldwin

1978
Born in Brookline, MA
Lives and works in Catskill, NY
2005
MFA in Studio Art, School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA
2000
BFA in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Spotlight: Ever Baldwin," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Stranger in the Echoes," Marinaro, New York, NY
2023
"Down the Line," Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2022
"Ever Baldwin & Wayne Fischer," LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France
"Quiet Yes," Marinaro, New York, NY
"PLENTY," Five Car Garage/Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Between Observation and Sensation," JAG Projects at Hudson House Reserve, curated by Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2018
"An Animal Unto Itself: Ever Baldwin & Anna Ortiz," curated by Tom Marquet, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
"Labor Day," Curt’s Door Gallery, Chicago IL
2007
"A Bad Bad Xmas For Cursed Earth! Ever Baldwin and Royal Robertson", Sunday Gallery, NY
"Don’t Let Nobody Make You Mad," Sunday Gallery, New York, NY
2006
"Mythmaking: Ever Baldwin and Ann Young," Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"No Point in Making Myself Comfortable," Springs Projects, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2025
"The Horror II, "The University of Texas, Dallas, TX
"Summer Spell," Marinaro, New York, NY
"The River That Flows Both Ways," Ruthann, Catskill, NY
"Signal Intelligence," eyes never sleep, New York, NY
"The Middle Ages, " Roundabouts Now, Kingston, NY
"Bride of the Far Side," Post Times, New York, NY
2024
"Pluperfect: an action of continued relevance," 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY
"Secular Gothic," eyes never sleep, New York, NY
"The Return of Histoire Naturelle," Chex Max et Dorothea, Los Angeles, CA
"Looking Back/The 14th White Columns Annual," White Columns, New York, NY
2023
"The Triumph of Death," Marinaro, New York, NY
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Jung Lovers," Soloway, Brooklyn, NY
JAG projects at Foreland, Catskill, NY
"Recipes for Romance," curated by Nick Payne, Hudson House, NY
2021
Forge Collection public exhibition, Taghkanic, NY
JAG projects at Hudson House Staff Show, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2020
Holiday Show, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
Eddysroom at Left Field, curated by Austin Eddy, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos CA
"Infinite Uncertainties," Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
2019
"Limbic Songs," Curated by Cotter Luppi, Real Eyes Gallery, North Adams, MA
"The Endless Body," curated by Julia Klein, TSA Chicago, IL
2018
"New School," Greene County Council on The Arts, Catskill, NY
Art To Go Benefit, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Summer Exhibition, Curated by Sarah Butler, D.R. Evarts Library, Athens, NY
"Act 1," September Gallery, Hudson, NY
"Escape Portal," Community Room, Cairo, NY
2016
Group Exhibition at Eddy’s Room, Brooklyn, NY
"Conceptualize/Realize," Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015-2016
"Buy What You Love Benefit Auction," Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
2015
"Person, Place or Thing: Works on Paper by 51 Artists," 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
2014
"Buy What You Love Benefit Auction," Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
"InsideOut," Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013
ACRE’s Art Expo Satellite Exhibition, Susanin’s Auction House, Chicago, IL
2012
"Movements and Transformations," ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Quiet Echo on Loud Wind," With Laura Hart Newlon, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
"Hot China," Estrella Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM
"Wish You Were Here," Niche Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM
"Chain Letter," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
"Restore Defaults," Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010
"Black Thursday Halloween City Black Friday Fireworks Stand," Troutman Studios, Brooklyn, NY
"The Romance Show," Curated by Sasha Panyuta, New York, NY
2009
"What It Is!" In collaboration with Matthew Ward, Repetti Gallery, Queens, NY
"Good Vibrations," curated by Jasmin Tsou at Carol Bove’s studio, New York, NY
"Quizotic," Troutman Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2007
"Conversational Lag," Freight and Volume, New York, NY
"Chuck has a fat fucking ass (MFA Thesis Exhibition)," Tufts University, Medford, MA

Selected Awards & Grants

2021
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Painting
2017
Publication: Bites, an artist board book by (Ever) Baldwin, Soberscove Press, Chicago, IL
2014
DCASE Individual Artist Program grant recipient, Chicago, IL
Atlantic Center for The Arts Residency with Artist Dana Schutz, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013
Ragdale Artist Residency, Lake Forest, IL
2012
ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
2011
Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY
2008
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist in Residence, New York, NY

Bibliography

2023
Irons, Hillary. “Modernism Both Past and Present Shine in Two Shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art,” Boston Art Review, November
2022
Smith, Roberta. “What to See in NYC Galleries Right Now,” The New York Times, August
Gerwin, Daniel. “Ever Baldwin,” Artforum, May

Public Collections

ICA Miami, Miami, FL
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

Whitney Bedford

Lives and works in Los Angeles
2003
MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1998-2000
Fulbright Visiting Artist under Professor Wolfgang Petrick, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998
Art and Architecture of Rome at RISDE European Honors Program, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
1996
Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994-1998
BA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Sunsetting," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
"Sunsetting," Art:Concept, Paris, France (forthcoming)
"Sunsetting," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2025
"Sunsetting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Whitney Bedford: The Window" San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023
"Whitney Bedford: Veduta," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
"Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Imaginary," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
"Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2021
"Whitney Bedford," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"Whitney Bedford: Greenhouse," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Nevertheless," Carrie Secrist Gallery (online)
"Nevertheless," Starkwhite (online)
"Nevertheless," Vielmetter Los Angeles (online)
"Reflections on the Anthropocene," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"Numinous," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Bohemia," Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
"The Left Coast," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Bardo Parade,” Art:Concept, Paris, France
2016
“East of Eden,” Carrie Secrist, Chicago, IL
“Lost and Found,” Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
"Night and Day," Taymour Grahne, New York, NY
"West of Eden," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014
"Whitney Bedford," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Love Letters," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013
"This for That," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
"Whitney Bedford (here and there)," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Whitney Bedford," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2007
"Whitney Bedford: The Escape Artist Series," Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Art:Concept, Paris, France
2005
DAmelio Terras, New York, NY
Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Art:Concept, Paris, France
2000
"Whitney Bedford," Hotel de Ville, Biot, France
1999
"Whitney Bedford," Fulbright-Kommission, Berlin, Germany
1998
"Whitney Bedford," BEB Gallery, Providence, RI
1997
"Whitney Bedford," Sokolofska #124 Space, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027
"Feels Natural," Heartland Whole Health Institute, Bentonville, AR (forthcoming)
2025
"Natura Non Constristatur," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024-2025
"All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Overserved," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
"Olio e pepe," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
2023
"New Landscapes Part I," Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2023-2024
"Inside/Outside," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2023
SWQT Group Show, Starkwhite Queenstown, Queenstown, New Zealand
2022
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Was/Is/Ought," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
2020
"Only Connect," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?”, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"Slippery Painting," Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Shall we go, you and I while we can," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Kaleidescope," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018
"How They Ran," Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
“Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
“New on the Wall (N.O.W.),” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (Link)
"C’est Comme Vous Voulez – As You Like It," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2017
“Anniversary Show,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
"A Verdant Summer," Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
“Painting: A Transitive Space,” ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
"La femme de trente ans," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris France
2014
"Lovers," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
"Sargent’s Daughters," Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013
"Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
"Facing the Sublime in Water, CA," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2011
"Everything Must Go," A Project with Ceramica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
2010
"The Gleaners: Works from the Sarah and Jim Taylor Collection," Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO
"Five from LA," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
"Bagna Cauda," Gallerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
"Houdini: Art and Magic, 1919-1949," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2009
"This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2007
"PX – Snow Falls in the Mountains," curated by Jan Bryant, St Paul’s Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
"Poker," Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2006
"Melancholy in Contemporary Art," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Step Into Liquid," Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
"Peindre des images," Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France
2005
"CUT," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Evidence," Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"The Third Peak," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
"Rogue Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Wunderkammer 2," Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
"Sad Songs," University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
"Project Room: A Show Without Works," curated by Daniele Perra, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
2004
"summer group show," Cherry de los Reyes, Los Angeles, CA
"Carpet Bag and Cozyspace," Healing Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Rimbaud," Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2003
Black Dragon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"MFA Exhibitions Show #1," UCLA New Wight Gallery/Kinross, Los Angeles, CA
1998
"New England Connection," Lanning Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Woods-Gerry Invitational Exhibition," Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1997
Inagurative Show, Space 1026 Space, Philadelphia, PA
1996
L’ecole Nouveau de Pont-Aven (The New Pont-Aven School Painters), Hotel de Ville, Pont-Aven, France
Salon de Refuses, Gallerie M, Pont-Aven, France
1995
"Common Threads," Rites and Reasons Gallery, Providence, RI

Bibliography

2025
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2024
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2023
Woodard, Josef. "Rethinking, Re-tilling Landscape Art," Santa Barbara Independent, November 26 (Link)
2020
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Review: Whitney Bedford at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, March 5 (Link)
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2017
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Gil, Virginia, “The must-see Art Basel Miami 2017 galleries,” Time Out Miami, November 20
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Zevitas, Steven, “Making it to the Big Stage: New American Paintings Alumni on View at Art Basel Miami 2017,” New American Paintings, December
2016
Vallecorse, Victoria, “Alumna showcases art worldwide, stays in LA for dynamic environment,” Daily Bruin, February 26
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2015
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2014
Karman, Tony, "An Unprecedented List of Cultural Exhibitions and Events in Chicago This September," September 16
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2009
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2007
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2006
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2005
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Rogue Wave 05, exhibition catalog, LA Louvre, Venice, CA
2004
Fertiles Textiles, Jalouse, November
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Catalogues and Publications

2023
Schwabsky, Barry and Sarah Whitfield. "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing," Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, 2023
2021
Schwabsky, Barry. “Whitney Bedford,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2021

Teaching Experience

2020
Visiting Artist, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2018-2024
Adjunct Professor, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2018-2021
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside
2018
Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2016-2017
Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego
2016
Visiting Artist, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Visiting Artist, University of California, Los Angeles
2012
Visiting Artist, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015
Pollock Krasner Award
2000-2003
UCLA Darcy Hayman Award
2001
UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner
1998-2000
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hoschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998-1999
Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt Banhoff Westend
1997
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship, Venice, Italy

Public Collections

Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium
Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Ruben Ochoa

1974
Born in Oceanside, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2003
MFA, University of California, Irvine
1997
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
1996
Parsons School of Art and Design, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020
"Ruben Ochoa," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017
“Sampled and Surveyed,” Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2016
"Tripping the Light Fantastick," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Ruben Ochoa: watching, waiting, commiserating,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (Link)
2014
"MATRIX 169: Ruben Ochoa, ‘Cloudless Day,’" The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (Link)
2013
"Dislocated Masses," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011
"Cores and Cutouts", Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2010
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2009
Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
"Crooked Under the Weight," Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Collapsed, Peter Blum, Soho, New York, NY
three the hard way, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2008
Fall of the Wall [paper], Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007
A Recurring Amalgamation, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Clastic Rupture, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2006
Extracted, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Freeway wall next to a, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Borrowed Ladders, ESL Ι Esthetics as a Second Language, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Greyscale, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, CA

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2018
"Forty and Nine," 49 South Van Ness Forum Sculpture Public Art Project, San Francisco, CA
2013
"Duet: Ruben Ochoa and B.J. Vogt", Duet St. Louis, MO, curated by Daniel McGrath
2011
Beta-Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2009
ArtBasel Miami, two person presentation with Tam Van Tran, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Booth
2007
Swap, collaboration with Mark Bradford, LACMA: On-Site, Charles White Elementary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Storage, collaboration with Marco Rios, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Embryonic Loop, collaboration with Marco Rios, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Caltransposed with Peter Tavera, Gallery 727, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Rigor Motors, collaboration with Marco Rios, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, CA
Projects by Ruben Ochoa and Michael Queenland, The Project, Los Angeles (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023
"Outside: In," Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
"The Land of Milk and Honey / La tierra queue mana leche y miel," Organized by the MexiCali Biennial, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2022
"Lonesome Crowd West: Works from MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
"Church for Sale," Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2020
"South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art After Chicanismo," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019-2020
" Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
"Open Space," BACKSPACE, Los Angeles, CA
"The Sorcerer’s Burden," The Contemporary Austin, Texas
2019
"Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Centennial: 100 years of Otis College Alumni," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community," Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2018
"Maker Faire San Diego," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2017
“Vantage,” Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
“Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (Link)
“Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Space,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2016
"Artworks for Change," Online Exhibition (Link)
2015
"Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to the Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2013
Nasher XCHANGE: 10+ Celebration, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Jeremy Strick
"Reverberations," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
"Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2012
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany
The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown, Jacobs Building, San Diego, CA
"my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
2011
Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice , Italy
2010
Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCenter, Kiev, Ukraine
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Invisible City, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain (Curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles) traveling to: Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, India; Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany; Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Counter Intelligence, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors XXIV, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Dibujar es Pensar Proyecto Magenta, Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico
2008
"it’s about sculpture," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curated by Alma Ruiz (catalogue)
In the Round: The 90th Anniversary of OTIS College of Art & Design, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporneo 08, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (organized by Pilar Perez)
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (curated by Rita Gonzalez,Howard Fox and Chon Noriega) travelling to: Tamayo Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; Mexico Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Museum Alamdea, San Antonio, TX; El Museo del Barrio / Americas Society, New York, NY; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
2007
Multifaceted Lens, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Z-A, 25th Anniversary for the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Viva Mexico! Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda Kardasz, traveling to BWA Wrocław Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
Latitude, Artcore, Los Angeles (organized by Pilar Tompkins)
Range, d.e.n Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Kristi Lippire)
2006
Mexicali Biennial, La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, Mexico
The Newsstand Project, newsstands throughout Los Angeles (organized by Dan Bayles)
Agent Once, Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles (organized by Jason Keller)
25 Bold Moves: Emerging Artists Exhibit, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Happenstance, Harris-Lieberman Gallery, New York (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
Drive by and relax, UPSPACE, Los Angeles (curated by Chris Sicat)
Borderless Dreams, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Drive Time, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Empire.Style, ART2102, Boyle Heights, CA (curated by Peter Zellner)
passerby, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Cassandra Cobelentz)
2004
FREEWAVES_Inter-State: Video on a Go, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2004 California Biennial, Arist-in-residence, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Land of the Free: Americana, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (curated by Tyler Stallings)
2003
Picarte! Photography Beyond Representation, Heard Museum, Phoeniz, AZ
Recess, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Brienne Arrington and Dan Bayles)
Happy Beautiful Desirable, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Better Look Twice, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Whacked, Los Angeles (curated by John Souza)

Selected Projects

2006-2007
Fwy Wall Extraction, 10 fwy eastbound below Soto St and Marengo Blvd intersection, Los Angeles (produced by Creative Capital Foundation)
2006
Disrup, LA><ART Billboard Project, La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington, Los Angeles
aint that revolutionary, LA><ART Billboard Project, corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA (in conjunction with the exhibition An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT, Los Angeles)
2001-2005
CLASS: C, mobile artist space featuring over 75 artists, curators, and collaborators throughout Southern California

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021
COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2013
California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Artist (Link)
2010
Future Generation Art Prize Nomination, Victor Pinchuk Foundation
2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) Investing in Artist Grant
2006
Rockefeller Fellowship: New Media
2005
International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency (ISCP-NYC), August-November 2007
Creative Capital Foundation: Visual Arts Grant
2004
Nimoy Foundation, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art: Artist-in-Residence
California Community Foundation: Emerging Artist Fellowship
The Durfee Foundation: Artists Resource for Completion Grant
2002
University of California Institutional Research Award (UCIRA)

Teaching Experience

2018
Associate Professor of Practice, USC Roski School of Art and Design

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2021
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2019
Fernandez, Javier. "Beauty at the Border: A collection of Art in Architecture pieces at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry," GSA, August 5 (Link)
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
Hickson, Patricia, "Nothing But Blue Skies," brochure for "Ruben Ochoa: Matrix 169, ‘Cloudless Day,’" published by Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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2013
Ruben Ochoa: Flock in Space, Trinity River Audubon Center, Exhibition Pamphlet for Nasher XCHANGE: 10 Years, 10 Artists, 10 Sites, Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, October
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2012
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2010
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2009
Adlmann, Jan Ernst, Santa Fe, Art In America, December
Momin, Shamim, Ruben Ochoa essay in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculptures and Installation, Phaidon Press
Art & Space: Ruben Ochoa, BOB International Magazine of Space Design, Issue #062, Fall
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Gray, Emma, Emma Grays Top 10 Shows in Los Angeles this Month, Daily Magazine, Saatchi Online, September
Myers, Holly, When nature and urban life conflict, Los Angeles Times, September 14
Becker, Jack; Slade, George, Multifaceted Lens: Photography and Public Art, Public Art Review, Spring/Summer
Freeman, Tommy, The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life at the Sweeney Art Gallery, Artweek, May
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2006
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West, Kevin, The Van Man, WWDscoop, September, p. 60
Myers, Holly, Freeways connect and divide, Los Angeles Times, September 15, p. E22
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2005
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2004
Pincus, Robert L., Turning in to the O.C.: Biennial belly laughs, The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 7
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2002
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Public Collections

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY